A year with the birds (1916) (14752211055)

Identifier: cu31924000167100 (find matches)

Title: A year with the birds

Year: 1916 (1910s)

Authors: Ball, Alice Eliza, 1867- Horsfall, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1869-1948. illus

Subjects: Birds Birds

Publisher: New York City, Gibbs & Van Vleck

Contributing Library: Cornell University Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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I CEDAR WAXWING The White-Breasted NuthatchThe Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers 87 The White-Breasted Nuthatch Im the nuthatch—white-breasted, Black, rusty, blue-gray.Long-billed and bright-eyed. Over tree-trunks I stray.Up, down, all about— Wherever I seeTiny eggs in the bark, Tucked away cunningly. Ive a short, square-cut tail; I need no firm propLike the woodpecker tribe. Or the creepers. I hopOn my large, sturdy feet Where I please without fear;And my cheery Crank-crank You will frequently hear. When not searching for food On a cold winters day,Near Chickadee, Downy, Or Titmouse I stay;During long, bitter nights We may nestle—snug, warm—In a woodpeckers hole, Sheltered safe from the storm. A. E. B. 38

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NUTHATCH The Nuthatch Shrewd little haunter of woods all gray,Whom I meet on my walk of a winter day,Youre busy inspecting each cranny and holeIn the ragged bark of yon hickory bole;You intent on your task, and I on the lawOf your wonderful head and gymnastic claw! The woodpecker well may despair of this feat— Only the fly with you can compete! So much is clear; but I fain would know How you can so reckless and fearless go, Head upward, head downward, all one to you, Zenith and nadir the same in your view? Edith M. Thomas 39 *The Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers Tree-dwelling insects must quiet be,When Downy knocks at their door in a tree;His ears are so sharp, if they stir a mite.He will dig them out for a toothsome bite.And when in winter they all are dead,Youll see his bobbing, red-capped headIn search of the eggs theyve hidden away,In the trimks of the trees, now gaunt and gray. Downy and Hairy look as though They had had a frolic in the snow; Had tumbled about till their breasts wer

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