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How To Have Bird Neighbors

Chapter 20: Transcriber’s Notes
By S. Louise Patteson
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A collection of personal observations and practical instructions for welcoming and supporting backyard and porch birds, combining anecdotes, photographs, and how-to guidance. It describes feeding, bathing, and nesting habits and offers measured plans for feeders and birdhouses, plus tips on seasonal care and protecting nests from predators. Individual chapters focus on encounters with a variety of species—wrens, bluebirds, martins, swifts, cardinals, robins and others—while appendices supply a glossary and construction directions, encouraging careful observation and hands-on learning about local birdlife.

N
Nest and Nestings: Baltimore Oriole, 73.
Bluebird, 30-32, 35, 38, 45, 54-56.
Bluejay, 52.
Brown Thrasher, 74, 75.
Cardinal, 106, 107, 109.
Cedar Waxwing, 94, 96, 97.
Chimney Swift, 59, 61-63.
Flicker, 48.
Goldfinch, 56, 75, 76.
Killdeer, 53, 54.
Phœbe, 97.
Purple Martin, 78, 82.
Redheaded Woodpecker, 73.
Robin, 3, 8, 9, 68, 69.
Wood Thrush, 50, 51.
Wren, 3-5, 8, 36-43, 45.
Nesthouses, 17-20, 24-26, 29-31, 111-115, 117, 118.
Berlepsch house, 94-96.
Bluebird, 18, 19, 25-27, 29-32, 35, 46, 112-115.
Chickadee, 46.
Crested Flycatcher, 94-96.
Purple Martin, 46, 78-91.
Woodpecker, 46.
Wren, 3-5, 18-20, 26, 29, 36-43, 45, 46, 112, 114, 115.
Nest Shelter, 117.
Nuthatch, 14-16, 103, 111.
O
Oriole, 58, 72, 73, 110, 112.
P
Pewee, 98, 99, 110.
Phœbe, 97, 98, 110, 117.
Pigeon, 2.
Protection, 10, 15, 23-27, 30, 32, 38, 45, 48, 56, 69-71, 117.
R
Rabbit, 21-23, 101.
Robin, 2, 3, 8-11, 47, 58, 68-71, 110, 117.
S
Sparrow, English, 2, 25-27, 32, 35, 37, 38, 40, 45, 54, 56, 79-82, 84, 86, 88, 115, 116.
Sparrow, Song, 54, 92, 93, 110, 119.
Squirrel, Gray, 25.
Squirrel, Red, 15, 24-27, 45, 69, 118.
Swallow (See Swift and Purple Martin).
Swift, Chimney, 59-67, 110.
T
Thrasher, Brown, 58, 73-75, 110.
Thrush, Wood, 47, 50, 51, 110.
W
Waxwing, Cedar, 94, 96, 97, 110.
Woodpecker, 2, 11-14, 17, 20, 46, 52, 119.
Woodpecker, Downy, 11-14, 23, 111.
Woodpecker, Golden-winged (See Flicker).
Woodpecker, Hairy, 12, 111.
Woodpecker, Redheaded, 58, 73, 74, 110.
Wren, 3-8, 11, 18-20, 24, 26, 29, 33, 36-43, 45, 110, 112, 114, 115.

FOOTNOTES

[1]Dr Francis H. Herrick, author of “The Home Life of Wild Birds.”
[2]A still better plan for lowering a martin house is described on page 127.
[3]These dimensions have been accepted and approved not only by my own bluebird neighbors, but by a bluebird pair reported in Bird Lore for July-August, 1916, as having nested in a cemetery, in an earthen jar that lay upon its side on a grave. The report goes: “The jar measured five inches across the bottom and about seven inches in length.” There it is: five by seven!
[4]Chas. R. Wallace of Delaware, Ohio, in Bird Lore, March-April, 1915, p. 128.
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Transcriber’s Notes

  • Silently corrected a few typos.
  • Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
  • In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.