How to Attract the Birds 



HOUSE HUNTING 



When a young man's fancy lightly turns to 

 thoughts of love, mating is the birds' one absorbing 

 idea. Some of them, having taken partners for life 

 in previous years, or having found mates on the 



Photograph by Carlin 



Blue-birds are peering about for some hole in an old hollow tree or fence 



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journey northward, are ready to begin housekeeping 

 as soon as they reach our home grounds. Others, 

 though still in the agonies of jealousy or the bliss 

 of wooing, do not long delay the serious work 

 of life. Only the cedar waxwings and goldfinch 

 postpone nesting until midsummer, when their prin- 

 cipal food supplies choke-cherries and thistle seeds 

 are most abundant. But even in March, blue- 

 birds are peering about for some hole in an old 

 hollow tree or fence rail to shelter their nest from 



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