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Unique Nesting Sites 
In June 
HILE on a visit to the Mississippi Bluffs at Savannah, in June, 
Mrs. E. T. Baroody, the Bird Lady of Savannah, piloted the editor 
to many of her favorite bird haunts. The climax of the day’s outing 
was the introduction to a pair of blue-winged warblers as they came to 
drink and bathe in a tiny brooklet in a thicket of willows. Never 
having seen this rare warbler before, it was a very great privilege to sit 
and watch them from the vantage of a worm-infested thicket as they 
preened their feathers after the bath. 
To the same thicket came a pair of Kentucky warblers, also a rare 
treat, but more shy. 
The beautiful bluffs of the Mississippi at Savannah with their strik- 
ingly eroded forms are a part of the unique unglaciated area that 
includes the four corners of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. 
The region is ideal for bird life, as its varied topography provides 
all sorts of conditions for their feeding and nesting. 
On the rear of a deserted cabin we found the nest of a house wren, 

Photograph by Orpheus M. Schants 
NESTING SITE OF CHICKADEE 
