Show PREY OF THE BIRDS V all forms of insects food of feathered songsters Song there is hardly a single angle group ot of insects which does not suffer from froin the appetite of one or more species of birds the eggs and larvae are arc dug and pried out of their burrows in tho the wood by woodpeckers eis and creepers those ground round are scratched and clawed up to low a ba quail partridges and many sparrows bp arrous warblers and scan avei leaf and twig flycatchers like the cat family of mammals lie in wait and surprise the insects on the wing more particularly those flying near the ground while swifts swallows and martins glean a harvest from the host of high tying flying insects when we think of humming birds are taking dainty sips of honey from the flowers they are in reality more often snatching minute spiders and flieg flies from the deep cups of the calyxes when night fails falls the insects anich have chosen that time as the safer to cairy on the business of active life are pounced on by crepuscular feathered beings the cavernous mouths of whip pool in wills ills engulf them as they rise from their hiding places and the bristles of nighthawks brush them into no less rapacious maws if perchance they have succeeded in reaching the upper air new york post |