62 Bird - Lore 
Now the water is all drawn off, and the Crows can alight anywhere they please 
and destroy the contents of the Blackbirds’ nests. On several occasions, nests 
containing eggs have been located, and a day or two later have been found empty 
and deserted. One day four sueh nests were observed, their linings being usually 
torn out and scattered about the spot. Last season no Redwings nested on the 
meadows. 
The question arises: Are these adverse conditions causing the Redwing to 
move to a new and different place during the nesting period, or is he doing it for 
reasons of another character? It seems that the dominant instinct to return 
each year to the same general locality is still strong, but that an entirely new area 
im that locality is gradually being accepted as the place for the rearing of the an- 
nual brood. 
“PLACED THE PREY IN FRONT OF THE EXPECTANT YOUNGSTER” 
From Macpherson’s ‘The Home-Life of the Golden Eagle.’ See page 62 
