THE DAY FLYERS 



belong to the army which soon will take posses- 

 sion of the land. 



Robins usually migrate in scattered com- 

 panies, or "loose flocks" as they are termed. 

 Bluebirds have much the same habit but are 

 perhaps even more scattered. When they are 

 traveling one can hear their soft flight-note, tur- 

 wee, turivee, all day long as bird after bird 

 passes overhead. 



Crows migrate much as they return to the 

 roost. In March and October one may see single 

 birds or groups of three or four flying rather 

 high and as though they had an important 

 engagement somewhere. Such flights may last 

 all day, while the return-to-the-roost flight, 

 we know, takes place only in the late after- 

 noon. 



Hawks also travel in this way. Some days in 

 the fall one or more Hawks will be in sight from 

 morning until evening, all flying in the same 

 direction as though they were going to the same 

 place. 



In the spring, on the eastern slope of the moun- 

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