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lence. The juncos even played the part of sparrows, hopping 
and chirping about the hotel in a very sociable way with worms 
in their mouths for their young, whi re in nests under the 
porches. This is considered a southern variety of now- 
bird,—nesting in the high mountain irginia and North 
Carolina rather than take the long journey towar e pole in 
tree limit in Alaska to the mountains of Pennsylvania, build- 
ing its nest of moss or grass on or near the ground, and occasion- 
ally near house: 
Robins and gee rivaled juncos in abundance near the 
houses. A nest oryoung robins on “e estat limb by my window 
hen 
and devotion. When 
it rained, the mother bird would stand on the limb and spread 
her je io ee nee era ones from storm. The chic 
was a n New York this year; and I sa 
only a ae pair each of wrens, a and p phpenee: Mode 
ingbirds do not get into that part of th i ly 
I have noticed them in pairs as far west as Blacksburg, at an 
What do birds get from plants? Food, protection, and siitabile 
places to build their nests. Many birds mix with their insect 
t Mountain Lake, there was plenty suc! the fruits 
of the shadbush, bird cherry, wild black cherry vari 
speci ; huckleberries, blueberries, elderberries, 
of viburnum; 
thimbleberries, raspberries, blackberries; and the berries of many 
wild oe plants better known perhaps to the birds than 
to ourselv 
BaLp KNoB 
y first visit to the Knob was made at five o ‘clock i in the 
the fog that fills the valleys at dawn looks like the foam. Land- 
marks in five states are easily visible from this elevation on a 
clear day. 
