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Nesting Sites 
By WiL1iAmM Barser, Kenosha, Wis. 
NEST of the red-winged blackbird was found made of chufa 
and bayonet grass, attached to stalks of calamus, and con- 
taining three greenish, black-speckled eggs. The parent birds 
gave me a most vociferous and noisy recepton when I approached 
the nest. 
The next nest was that of a pair of blue birds in an old fence post. 
The mother bluebird was shy and tried to lead me away from her babes. 
In a hawthorn tree nearby another pair of bluebirds was teaching 
their family of three to fly. This pair was more active, and fearlessly 
tried to drive me away , 
The third nest was right out in the open, built on the ends of a couple 
of fence posts in a pile of posts only a few feet from a railroad, with no 
shelter above it. The bottom of nest was attached to the posts by a 
neat job of masonry, in construction quite similar to the mud construc- 
tion of the barn swallow. 

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Photo by Wm. Barber, Kenosha, Wis. Photo by Wm. Barber, Kenosha, Wis. 
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