[Illustration: Blue jay.]
"I wish we could see them now!" said Frank. "The hawk will turn on them soon. Then they'll change their tune."
"They are having a good time shouting and screaming to each other," said
Susie. "What a horrid noise they make!"
"They scare away the other birds," said Donald.
"How many birds do you know?" asked Uncle Robert.
[Illustration: Robin.]
"I know all the birds that come around the house and the barn," said Donald. "There are the robins, sparrows, pewees, wrens, swallows, and martins. Then there are the birds in the fields—the larks and the crows. The names of some of the little birds in the woods I do not know."
"You have left out the woodpeckers," said Frank, "and the thrushes and catbirds."
"And the cherry birds, that look like canaries," said Susie.
"Get up early in the morning, just as the sun is rising, and you will hear a chorus," said Mrs. Leonard. "It is a regular morning praise meeting."