AZ THE BIRDS 
saucer-shaped platform of small sticks and twigs, from 
ten to fifty feet from the ground. The eggs number from 
three to five, a pale green color, and measure 2.00x1.40. 
Fresh eggs April 10th to 20th. Only one brood a season. 
Some years these birds do not spend the winter with us, 
arriving the later part of Mareh or first of April, and 
departing the end of October. Other mild winters find 
them with us in numbers. This season (1913) I found 
them very abundant in Princess Anne County during all 
the winter months. When their supply of food; 
minnows, small fish and other marine life, is frozen up, 
they migrate southward at once, returning as soon as the 
weather breaks. 
