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include some of the numerous inviting rocky hillsides in part 
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that is free to him who wou invite his sou 
Perhaps the safest nesting place in the Garden is in a thor 
tre r the nests here seemed to be mostly those of 
tin rarm 
Bronce: put as oo miei awing: without eae or a torn 
sleeve ll be a sorry 
affair when you get 
owbirds mea to be common. Song sparrows fed 
pine warbler, but it is more likely to have been a chestnut-sided 
warbler tive, the yellow warbler, has been known to 
build four additions t nest to get rid of a cowbird’s eggs 
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lakes, naturally there are plenty _ nests of yellow warblers and 
redwing blackbirds. 
redstart’s nest attracted attention because it was so close to 
hair and grass. oe little girls, one a Gepple, came every day 
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for weeks h over it, an ought bits of cotton; they 
stood within a few fee the nest, while t) ds were 
building and feeding their you: nd mounted guard over them 
on Saturdays and Sundays till te vesting had flown away 
Phoebes nested on a beam of t -house near the lake 
and under the rubble-stone baace A doze: n-birds were 
ae birds spent a good part of the winter in the Garden, and 
remained till spring and probably nested on some 
of the apple: trees. 
