CHAPTER VII 



THRUSHES, THRASHERS, WAXWINGS, KINGLETS, 

 WARBLERS, VIREOS 



THE birds that nest in holes in trees and 

 can be accommodated with a nest box 

 form a very small proportion of the 

 feathered population. Some of the most valu- 

 able birds build their nests high in the tree 

 tops, some on horizontal limbs, some on firm 

 crotches, some very near the ground, others on 

 the ground. Probably the Robins are the most 

 adaptable, placing their nests on many differ- 

 ent sorts of branch formations and on ledges 

 at different heights from the ground. Last 

 summer one pair nested high up in a willow 

 tree by the barn, another in a maple, another 

 in the hawthorn bush, and another pair on a 

 ledge in the stone wall, while several pairs were 

 in the orchard making their nests in the shel- 

 tered nooks formed where suckers had grown 

 out from limbs that had been cut back in 

 pruning. 



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