Image: A-birding on a bronco (1896) (14563667518)

Description: Identifier: abirdingonbronco00bail (find matches) Title: A-birding on a bronco Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Bailey, Florence Augusta (Merriam), 1863- Subjects: Birds Birds Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: he California fruit growers have a moresubstantial reason in the way the birds eat thescale that injures the olive-trees. The bush-titsmight be the little sisters of the chickadee family,they are so small. They look like gray ballswith long tails attached, for they are plump fluffytots, no bigger than your thumb, without theirtails. One of them, when preoccupied, once camewithin three feet of where I stood. When hediscovered me a comical look of surprise cameinto his yellow eyes and he went tilting off, forhis long tail gave him a pitching flight as if hewere about to go on his bill, a flight that re-minds one of the tail that wagged the dog. There were so many of the gray pocket nestshi the oaks that it was hard to choose which towatch, but one of the most interesting hung froma branch of the big double oak of the gnat-catchers, above the ranch-house, where I couldsee it when sitting in the crotch of the tree.While watching it I looked beyond over the chap- 104 A-BIRDING ON A BRONCO. Text Appearing After Image: Nest of the Bush-tit. arral wall away to a dark purple peak standingagainst a sky flecked with sun-whitened clouds.The nest was like an orioles, but nearly twice aslong, though the builders were less than half thesize of the orioles. Instead of being ojDen at the POCKET MAKERS. 105 top, it was roofed over, and the only entrance wasa small round hole, the girth of the bird, abouttwo inches under the roof. One might imagine that such big houses wouldbe dark with only one small dormer window, andthe valley children assured me that the birdshung living firefly lamps on their walls ! I sug-gested that a Society for the Prevention of Cru-elty to Fireflies would be needed if that were thecase; but when it comes to that, what bird wouldchoose to brood by gaslight? When I first saw the bush-tit in its round door-way, it suggested Jack Horners famous plum,comical little ball of feathers ! When first watch-ing the nest the small pair put me on their listof enemies, along with small boys, blue ja Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: A-birding on a bronco (1896) (14563667518)
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