BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



injuring the trees. In the autumn we have 

 another visit from them when on their way 

 south. Though some of the Golden-crowns 

 remain in sheltered evergreens in southern 

 Ontario all winter, they have not done so here. 



WARBLERS 



Over twenty members of the large Warbler 

 family have watched over our trees. Some of 

 these make only fleeting visits, usually nesting 

 in more southern parts of the Province. Some 

 others, like the Kinglets, nest farther north and 

 stop only while on their way back and forth 

 from their summer home to their winter home. 

 But fully a dozen different members of the 

 family have nested with us. Of these the Green 

 and Yellow is one of the most numerous. 



Most of the Warblers nest in low bushes near 

 the ground. Last summer the boys who live 

 below the hill watched a nest of little Green 

 and Yellow Warblers in a lilac bush that grew 

 beside their gate. The fifth egg was the last 

 to hatch and that baby was small and weak, 

 and a few days after it died. The old birds 

 pulled it out of the nest and let it drop down 

 among the leaves on the ground at the root 



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