BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



country, where birds are more numerous than 

 in any city garden, fruit trees blossom and 

 fruit forms in such large clusters that every- 

 one who wants a fine quality must thin them 

 out ; so the birds do not take very many blos- 

 soms. They have been spending most of their 

 time getting insects and caterpillars. The 

 Oriole especially has a tremendous appetite for 

 tent caterpillars, often searching them out 

 when they have escaped the spray. Moreover 

 he is always watching, an advantage far above 

 any spray device. The birds do not tell how 

 many trees they have saved from destruction, 

 and if on rare occasions they are seen helping 

 themselves to a few buds, or a few cherries, it 

 should be remembered that if everything they 

 have done for the trees were recorded, it would 

 be more than the human owners have done. 



BLACKBIRDS, COWBIRDS 



Of the Blackbird, cousin of the Bobolink, 

 the Meadowlark and the Oriole, three kinds 

 are found here ; the large Blackbird, known as 

 the Crackle or Crow Blackbird, the smaller 

 Blackbird, sometimes called Rusty Crackle, 

 and the Redwinged Blackbird. The Crow 

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