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Strings and cotton and chicken feathers for the birds' nestings     Frontis

Suet and doughnuts for downy, corn for the cardinal, cereal for the song sparrow     v

Goldfinch feeding babies     vi

"Oh, where is Mother?" viii

The basin on the porch railing     1

They were making that can into a bird home     4

The baby robins     9

One winter day a pigeon came in at an open window     10

Vacant lots attract birds     11

The winter birds like peanuts and suet     13

When I did not have peanuts I gave the nuthatch doughnuts     14

The dear happy chickadee     17

The selfish nuthatch     20

Cats belong on their own premises     21

The basin was Bunny's looking glass     22

The genial gray squirrel     27

The return of the bluebird     28

Sometimes she was just gliding through the entrance as he alighted on the housetop with a choice morsel for her     31

Bluebird babies to feed and care for     33

The bluebirds moved into the pretty double house     34

Rented for the summer     36

The small wren house in the pear tree     39

A baby wren on the window sill     43

Bluebirds are great helpers in a garden     44

Baby flicker peeps at the outside world     49

Mrs. Wood Thrush on her nest     51

A killdeer's nest in a potato field     53

The bluebirds in their primitive home     55

Every little while a goldfinch came to the "store" tree and got some string     57

The chimney swifts' temporary home     60

The flicker is also called golden-winged woodpecker     61

Chimney swifts' nest     62

One of these Swift babies was put to rest in the nest, but he did not stay there long     63

A robin's nest     68

Near the nest tree was a big stone which the redheaded woodpecker used as a perch     74

Each little goldfinch called as loud as he could     76

A young goldfinch alighted on the clothes line     77