CHAPTER VIII. 



WINTER SHIFTS. 



HOW FEATHERED FOLK FARE DURING SEVERE 

 WEATHER. 



WHEN the rowan and 

 blackberries have all 

 been consumed and bitter 

 November blasts come roaring 

 like hungry wild beasts out 

 of the frozen North, driving 

 worms and other forms of 

 lowly life to their sleeping 

 quarters deep down in the 

 bosom of Mother Earth, the 

 hardships of bird life com- 

 mence in earnest. 



Vast multitudes of fieldfares 

 and redwings travel south to share with thrushes 

 and blackbirds such store of hips and haws as 

 a barren or bounteous summer may have left 

 upon the leafless twigs of hedgerows and bush- 

 clad common for them. 



In spite of repeated failures, many people 

 profess their ability to forecast the character of 



ROBIN FEEDING UPON 

 COCOANUT PLACED ON 

 HORN OF STUFFED OX 

 FOR TITS. 



