Students of bird life under many conditions warn 
beginners to be very caretul as to the size and position of 
the entrance to the nest, the way this entrance slants, the 
direction it faces, and the selection of the site of the box. ° 
The preceding table show the most suitable size and 
position of the entrance, which should slant upward toward 
the inside to prevent rain from running down into the box. 
For the same reason it should face away from prevailing 
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wind and rain. If natural nesting sites are noticed, the 
direction can be known. In addition, ‘the box should never 
slant backward at the top, a slant forward is not so unattrac- 
tive, for some birds dig out nests under projecting stumps 
of limbs. | 
For birds that do not like bird houses, poles, foes 
corners, trees, shrubs, or wild tangles are necessary; and, 
in clearing our own building places, it would be easy to leave 
the native growth which bears the fruit that birds like best. 
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