Photo by Eouise Birt Baynes 



THE DAINTIEST GUEST 



A picture of an inquisitive and very puzzled 

 humming-bird probing an artificial flower 



lish sparrow, house-finch, tree and violet 

 green swallow, purple martin, house- 

 wren, Parkman's wren, Bewick's wren, 

 Vigor's wren, and Texas Bewick's wren, 

 white-breasted nuthatch, tufted titmouse, 

 black-capped chickadee, Oregon chicka- 

 dee, Carolina chickadee, robin, and three 

 varieties of bluebirds — eastern, western, 

 and mountain. To this list the Carolina 

 wren ought probably to be added ; though 

 while I do not know personally of any 

 record of its actually building in a bird- 

 box, it builds about houses and in the 

 most unheard of and crazy places. 



Robins and phcebes may be encour- 

 aged by shelves conveniently placed be- 

 neath the roofs of porches, piazzas, and 

 sheds, while the insect-eating barn and 

 eave swallows may often be helped in 

 their choice of nesting sites by a support- 

 ing shelf. Vines on trellises or about the 

 piazza posts are attractive nesting sites 

 for chipping sparrows, as well as robins, 

 and I once knew of a blue jay that built 

 in a wistaria vine overhanging a friend's 

 front porch. 



One can never tell just what birds are 

 going to do. Crows are reported to have 

 nested in one of the squares in the city 

 of Philadelphia and on Beacon Hill in 

 Boston, while a pair of sparrow-hawks 

 have bred beneath the eaves of the Law- 

 rence Scientific School in Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Chimney swifts should also be encour- 

 aged, and when possible the chimneys 



MOTHER AND DAUGHTER 



This is a photo of a wild chickadee feeding her young in June. 



the hand that feeds her in winter 



Photo by Ernest Harold Baynes 



She does not fear in summer 



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