IDYLLS OF BIRD LIFE 
cardinal, robin, house wren, crested flycatcher, blue jay, flicker, 
and red-headed woodpecker, the harsh “chack-chack” of the 
purple.'grackle and numerous other notes unrecorded. 
As I walked through the woods, I noticed a house wren 
lollow limb of a giant sycamore nearby. I quietly 
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investigated, and found that a pair of these tiny birds were busy 
jig a nest in the dead limb. I marked the place for a 
"future visit when the young would be hatched. A pair of robins 
vere busily engaged in building a nest in a black locust tree 
sycamore, preparatory to raising a brood. Not ten 
fed! from the locust and in a clump of bushes I found a brown 
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tfifasher’s nest containing four bluish eggs, spotted with numer- 
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ous fine dots of reddish brown. Neither parent bird was in the 
vicinity, but while I was examining the eggs both birds arrived, 
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so I quickly left the neighborhood of their home, not caring to 
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disturb them during the nesting season. 
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I walked on slowly, watching every tree and shrub for 
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signs'of bird life. About a hundred feet up in a sycamore, a'v^r- 
/ emale flicker was hard at work chiseling out a home, while a 
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I'ed-headed woodpecker, a little higher in the same tree, was.g 
busily engaged in feeding a hungry nest full of young, as I could 
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their boisterous climorings. I discovered anot 
