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conceived the idea of feeding the 
rd on the nest! So he took a cup of 
! gar water and a spoon and slowly, cau 
)usly approached the nest. Nearer 
d nearer he went. The bird did not 
off, but, startled, crouched down 
>sely over her two little eggs. As he 
is close on her, a sudden frightened 
>veinent of her bill put it into the 
oon and she got a taste of the swe u- 
ed water. Theat was enough, she. fear- 
sly helped herself to more. From 
it time on she, and her young ones as 
py were hatched out were regularly 
t| l from the spoon! When the young 
1 ds were grown, one of them remained 
ti the summer about the place. The 
I nily ate their meals in the fir grove, 
IP if they would be late in appearing 
* the table the young humming bird 
uld come to the porch door and 
eech impatiently, as young birds do, 
■ its meal. One day it evidently tried 
j help itself from a cup of milk: on the 
ie, and fell in. It was later found 
re almost dead. Professor blender¬ 
’s wife and daughter washed it ten- 
ly, rubbing the sticky milk from its 
image with difficulty. They wrapped 
i in flannel, and put it in the gentle 
t of an oven to dry; then they brush- 
its feathers to their former fluffiness, 
n two or three days it was able to fly 
in. W 7 hen September came off it 
one day and they knew no more 
■lit it. Professor Henderson says, 
i 1 my own observation on this Coast 
3| e shown that it is probably true that 
3 inning birds like to build their nests 
j r houses and people, 
: everal miles to the West, from the 
|be where the Hood River empties in- 
f he Columbia River, is a low sandy 
: which is covered by water when the 
WAY BIDE p 
Columbia is high. This flat is a mass of 
trees and undergrowth. Here is a 
place where the birds can congregate 
and live. 
Blue birds in numbers though “the 
sky tinge on their backs and the earth 
tnge on their breasts” are more dingy 
than in the Middle West, sing their 
Ber-Ber-muda-muda! Ber-Ber-muda 
with a member of their Southern Icland 
home, as some one has said, with the 
sweet, lingering intonation; and they 
lake to themselves the freedom “of the 
Underwood Ferry, opposite the depot, 
with as much friendliness. 
We have often walked down the rail¬ 
road track before twilight and have 
listene to the songs of birds we did not 
know, and have caught glimpses of 
the unfamiliar feathered inhabitants of 
this bird heaven. One day we watched 
a turkey buzzard in flight over the 
Columbia, Circling up and up it 
went, and floating onward higher into 
the blue sky with a grace and skill no 
* bird man can ever hope to attain. 
Nature has given the jturky buzzard 
pcetry of motion and coupled it with 
ugliness of form. Therefore it is in 
the distance and in flight that one must 
see it. 1 have looked down on it from 
the crest of the Blue Mounta ins along 
the Atlantic Coast many times. Here 
its aerial journeys take It, even higher 
to the ridges of the cascades. 
In one of the drugstores o f Hood 
River is a handsome stuffed specimen of 
a gray eagle. Upon inquiry I found it 
had come from the mountains near 
here. A boy out hunting had come upon 
it suddenly under some bushes and it 
could not get away. Think of the great, 
scaring eagle in such a plight! Of 
course the boy shot it, 
(Continued in November number) 
