104 THE LOG OF THE SUN 



migration host will roach its height from the 

 tenth to the fifteenth of the month. From this 

 until June first, migrants will be passing, but in 

 fewer and fewer numbers, until the balance comes 

 to rest again, and we may cease from the strenu- 

 ous labours of the last few weeks, confident that 

 those birds that remain will be the builders of 

 the nests near our homes — nests that they know 

 so well how to hide. Even before the last day of 

 May passes, w r e see many young birds on their 

 first weak-winged flights, such as bluebirds and 

 robins ; but June is the great month of bird homes, 

 as to May belong the migrants. 



Robins and mocking birds that all day long 

 Athwart straight sunshine weave cross-threads of song. 



Sidney Lanier. 



