BIRD LIFE IN WASHINGTON 
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tops of the brakes or from the branches 
of the low firs. 
The nest may be found in May or June 
upon the ground or low in the bushes. It 
is easily found. And has three or five 
green blue eggs in it. We may flush the 
mother bird from the nest in the corner of 
the yard. For this daring, the bird pays 
a heavy toll to the cat. 
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Nuttall is large for a sparrow. His 
color is gray. On wings and back, there 
is brown mixed with the gray. Black and 
white stripes adorn his head. His wing 
bars are white. 
GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW 
During the last part of April and first 
of May, Golden-Crowned Sparrow visits 
us. He is a small greyish brown bird 
with the golden crown between two black 
lines which gives him his name. 
Their conversation sounds like “enk, 
enkv," or sometimes “oo'ee." 
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GOLD-CROWNED SPARROW 
