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Jack Miner and the Birds, and Some Things I Know about Nature

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Jack Miner
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The author presents a collection of first-person essays and practical notes on observing, raising, and protecting wild and domestic birds. He recounts experiences with quail, pheasants, ducks, swans, and Canada geese, detailing feeding, nesting, trapping, tagging, and sheltering techniques and describing relationships with dogs and methods for controlling predators such as weasels. Close observations of migration, nesting concealment, senses, and possible bird communication alternate with hands-on guidance for creating sanctuaries and martin houses. Anecdotes about individual birds illustrate themes of loyalty, loss, and conservation, while chapters on sportsmanship and community education emphasize humane stewardship and habitat protection.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
Jack Miner Himself Frontispiece
 
Wild Geese at my Home  
 
Looking Over Esau’s Line Fence at the Writer 2
 
Quail Self-serving Feed-rack 12
 
Hawk and Owl Trap 13
 
Shelter and Feeding place for Quail 14
 
Quail Egg-shells, After Hatching 15
 
Young Quail, Just Four Weeks Old 17
 
Eating from the Hand that once Held the Gun 17
 
Under Side of Weasel Trap and Harbor 34
 
Jasper Feeding the Robins 39
 
Snowball 40
 
Tile Bird Houses 42
 
“Why Didn’t You Knock Before You Opened the Door?” 43
 
The English Sparrows’ Victims 44
 
How the Woodpecker Gets the Worm 46
 
The Martin “Castle” 51
 
Old Duck and Young Waiting at the Gate 60
 
Katie Feeding out of My Hand 64
 
Polly and Delilah 66
 
Showing Both Sides of Aluminum Tags 70
 
Puzzle: Find the Duck’s Nest 73
 
Where the Duck’s Nest Was 73
 
Duck, with Young, Crossing the Field 74
 
The Mulberry Family 76
 
Map Showing Migration of the Ducks 86
 
The Canada Goose 93
 
Total Flock of Geese, 1909 99
 
The Flock of Geese, 1910 100
 
The Flock of Geese, 1911 102
 
David and Jonathan 103
 
The Death of Jonathan 104
 
Geese Rising from the Pond 106
 
On Guard 110
 
A Gallant Veteran 111
 
With the Little Ones Between 112
 
Faithful After Death 127
 
Map Showing Migration of the Geese 131
 
The Indian Achimaya 136
 
Indian Woman, Fort George 137
 
Returned Duck and Goose Tags 141
 
My First Successful Catch of Wild Geese 143
 
A Big Catch in the Big Net 145
 
Children with Bird houses, Peterborough, Ontario 150
 
Geese in Flight at the North Pond 152
 
Geese on the South Pond 153
 
Scotch Pines 156
 
These were “Wild” Swans 159
 
Wild Wing-tipped Swans 161
 
Martin House 169
 
I Love the Birds, and They Have Come to Me 175
 
I Plant Roses, and They Arch My Path with Fragrant Bloom 176
 
But Best of All, I Love Boys, and Boys Love Me in Return 177