My Experience with Von Berlepsch Nesting- boxes 7 



the pair of Chickadees nested again in the cedar by my library window^ 

 while the Screech Owls this year raised three young in the box, type C, in 

 which they roosted last year. The Golden-winged Woodpeckers seemed to 

 like their new houses, type C, and two pairs used them. One of them raised 

 a brood without difficulty, but the other had its first nest broken up by red 

 squirrels, and so moved to another box in which a gray squirrel had just raised 



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a litter of young, and, pulling out the lining of this nest, proceeded to raise a 

 brood there. 



This year, 191 1, apparently the same pairs of birds are nesting in the same 

 places, though the Bluebirds took a different box for their first brood. Flickers 

 occupied two boxes, and the Chickadees came back as usual; while White- 

 bellied Nuthatches and Great-crested Flycatchers were seen about other boxes. 



The Screech Owls were apparently so disgusted with the disturbance we 

 made last year in photographing their young that they nested elsewhere. 



I have been, of course, very much disappointed in the above showing; and 

 yet, after due consideration, it seems to me that many of the difficulties 



