BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



real help to the small birds that nest on the 

 ground, and a means of keeping them at our 

 very door. To-whit To-whee always likes a 

 fallen log or stump beside which to make his 

 nest. Many other members of that family, 

 and members of the invaluable Warbler family, 

 would readily nest in such a spot. On one farm 

 the Whip-poor-will always chose the rhubarb 

 bed on which to lay her eggs, probably finding 

 that the large leaves of the rhubarb gave the 

 privacy and moisture of the woodland. 



The birds that want a swampy home, pre- 

 ferably beside some pond or stream, are the 

 most difficult to help. Their troubles are a plea 

 for the preservation of the bushes that grow 

 along the streams, in the swamps and on the 

 hillsides. We cannot bring back those cool, 

 shady places that have gone, but we can do 

 what we can to induce the owners to leave what 

 remain to the birds. 



The birds that nest in swamps have had 

 more difficulties in obtaining nesting places 

 than the shore birds, for the shores have not 

 been deprived as yet of so much of their natu- 

 ral condition, and the old nesting places on a 

 sheltered beach have not all disappeared. But 

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