LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Strings and cotton and chicken feathers for the birds’ nestings] Frontis PAGE [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 [This martin scout brought a lady with him] 78 [The martins’ aircastle] 81 [The home-coming of the martins] 87 [A great gathering in mid-air] 91 [A bath for birds and a lunch beside it] 92 [The crested flycatcher and a Berlepsch house] 95 [Kitty watching for mice] 98 [The new food house was visited by bluejays] 100 [A feedery much liked by downy] 101 [A tree trimmed with peanuts for the birds] 102 [The cardinal’s favorite feedery] 105 [Always Mr. Cardinal came first and ate a while; then she would follow] 109 [Song sparrow] 110 [Mother Oriole in the bath] 113 [So made that they can be easily opened after use and cleaned] 116 [Food house, made out of waste materials] 118 [Maybe they will fly to us, instead of away from us] 121 [The birdies’ policeman] 122 [The finished martin house] 128 [Raising the martin house] 128
“OH, WHERE IS MOTHER?”