BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



come hopping about the door for crumbs. 

 Usually they make their nests in low trees and 

 bushes, sometimes in the vines that grow about 

 the porch. There is never a country home 

 without a Chipping Sparrow's nest somewhere 

 about. These trusting little birds come very 

 close to us for protection, for they are so often 

 unfortunate, their low nests being reached by 

 cats or squirrels, or usurped by European Spar- 

 rows. Last year a pair here nested in the bar- 

 berry hedge beside the stone wall, bringing out 

 a very interesting family of four, and their first 

 flight was from the nest to the table in the 

 porch. 



The Song Sparrow is a bird that would per- 

 haps be more missed than any other should we 

 have a spring without it. It is one of the 

 earliest sweet singers, and its song seems more 

 like sacred music than that of any other bird. 

 Song Sparrows are always at Peasemarsh for 

 Easter Sunday, and what sweeter Easter music 

 than theirs could we have? Sometimes they 

 arrive early in March and sing all through the 

 cold, raw days while we wait the real coming of 

 spring. Like "Chippie," they will come to the 

 door for crumbs and grow very tame. One 



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