14 Birds Every Child Should Know 
together you can closely imitate this alarm call. 
Whom can he be scolding so severely? It is 
yourself, of course, for without knowing it you 
have come nearer to his low nest in the beech 
tree than he thinks quite safe. While sitting, 
the mother bird is, however, quite tame. A 
photographer I know placed his camera within 
four feet of a nest, changed the plates, and 
clicked the shutter three times for as many 
pictures without disturbing the gentle sitter who 
merely winked her eye at each chick. 
Wood thrushes seem to delight in weaving 
bits of paper or rags into their deep cradles 
which otherwise resemble the robins.’ A nest 
in the shrubbery near a bird-lover’s home in 
New Jersey had many bits of newspaper at- 
tached to its outer walls, but the most con- 
spicuous strip in front advertised in large letters 
“A House to be Let or Sold.” The original 
builders happily took the next lease, and another 
lot of nervous, fidgety baby tenants came out of 
four light greenish-blue eggs; but, as usual, 
they moved away to the woods, aften ten days, 
to join the choir invisible. 
WILSON’S THRUSH 
The veery, as the Wilson’s thrush is called 
in New England, is far more common there than 
