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OUR BACKDOOR NEIGHBORS 



built for screech owls and flickers, for winter 

 nests, though they usually retired to the wood 

 to rear their families. If there were no satis- 



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They found one with its eyes open and all its clothes on. 



factory cavity, a nest of dry leaves would be 

 built high in a treetop. These nests were very 

 cleverly formed, with the leaves so arranged 

 as to give a shingled effect, and shed the water 

 very effectively. The spring nests in which 

 the young were brought forth were built more 



