The Mountain Chickadees 
comes to horticulture, three pairs of Chickadees are equal to one Scotch¬ 
man any day. 
The young were fully fledged, and the irrepressible of the flock (there 
is always an irrepressible) spent a good deal of time at the entrance 
shifting upon his toes, and wishing he dared venture out. The old 
birds fed incessantly, usually alighting upon the bark at one side of the 
Taken in San Diego County Photo by Dickey 
EXACT JUSTICE 
A MOTHER BIRD ALWAYS APPEARS TO KNOW EXACTLY WHOSE TURN IT IS 
hole and debating for a moment before plunging into the wooden cavern, 
whence issued a chorus of childish entreaties. 
The next morning our Chickadees had all flown, and upon breaking 
into the abandoned home we found a nest chamber some six inches in 
diameter, with its original warm lining mingled with fallen punk and 
trodden into an indistinguishable mass by the restless feet of the chick 
Chickadees. A special feature of the interior construction was a knot, 
which had persisted as a hard core when the surrounding punk had been 
removed. This had evidently been no end of amusement to the young 
birds and of service to the parents as well, for its surface was polished 
by the friction of many Penthestine toes. 
The pair figured next (indifferently well) had a home in the upturned 
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