Show I AT HOME WITH BIRDS BIRDS IN JULY MONTH OF NESTS EGGS AND BABIES Hy fly v fRS ms J i L GARRI Oi hen W hen you are camping in July It I Is very sery hard harJ to keep your mind mindon mindon mindon on biscuits and bacon if a bird just outside l is ts asking in the soft soft- softest soft softest est imaginable s voice oice ee dep dee dee- dee Ee 1 lou ou feel rl as if you really must t find out if It it Is lather Father G to Mother Goldfinch In that pleasant affectionate ton tone at thIs stage tage in iii life gam game For the goldfinch children are growing f st stand and demanding mor more and larger worms each d diy day y Und Under r similar circumstances human fathers are som sometimes Iru lined to say Hay lY d 4 s a Ith an entirely different expression ant meaning If It you jou can cnn take tako a min mm- minute ute to look 1001 iou vou all will find rind that it Is th the goldfinch and that he lie is doing hi his beautiful be let best t to help in m all domestic affairs His brilliant song Is full fuli of or much more meaning and to us IfIe if we Ie e have base II the th op- op op opportunity of oC witching the thc g- g gentle kindly birds in their hom home life liCe MONTt 01 U StABlES Among the birds Jut Jul is the month of nests and eggs and bird s Hanging 10 low loss among the welds weeds s sweet et clover lover or bushes are the song sparrow nests with their greenish white eggs spotted spoiled Ith brown During the first t part of oC I I the month striped young oung song on spar spar- sparrows I rows ros are aro hopping bopping about the bu bushes hs while th the parents as anxious anxious- anxiously anxiously anxiously ly at you as do 10 the spar spar- spar lows lOWS The darting in life liCe of oC a IL youn I ellow warbler r I Is most moat Int While th the young bird has only a afe afes afew fes fe yellow ellow feathers among the gray ray I down of the breast brast it is flying from lI b to limb chattering to Its Jer fromI I er as liS if IC asking unending questions In bird life experience seems able I to help Inexperience Advice seems to be bo received and followed by the oung For more than a IL w week k at- at after af after ter leaving the nest neet the young warblers follow the parents and are I ted fed by the tho mother The Tho father sings the babies a song but seems to turn an indifferent back to the I Importunities for tor food A stoutly woven basket lined with horsehair and hung about two I feet from the ground in dock or sweet clover will be a blackbirds blackbird's I Inest Ineat steal nest A pair of red wings Ings h heo have base eo anest 4 nest In a raspberry patch In a gar gar- garden garden gar garden den The grayish looking young birds are lire en ervy ersy numerous first part of July It If they thy do not give a betraying blackbird chack check chack you may at first think ou have found a new sp species cl s of bird Stave Have vou ou heard the sandpipers whistling and noticed their spot sPOt- spotted ted breasts along the water up at atThe The Wells 7 The baby sandPIPers Iera ers era are aro to be found durin during the middie mid mid- middie die and latter parts of July The Tha mother will III whistle and try to lead lend I you aWS away from her nest or fromI from I her shows sho a abrown abrown abrown her babies The baby I brown line IIno along the top of the head and also the tho striped back but I Ithe the spots do not show on the breast until much later The spot spot- spotted spotted spotted ted sandpiper r makes make her nest as co 10 the other 14 kinds of oC western sand sand- sandpapers sandpapers papers on the tho ground She Sha snakes makes It of ot grass and leaves and hides bides It In a IL tuft of grass S grassI I Early In July strived meadow meadow- meadowlark meadowlark meadow lark lark children their stumpy tails al- al alread already al already read ready showing the outer edge of white aro are attempting long flights I across the fields It if th the baby Is out of ot sight the mother will often IsI I d decoy y In such auch an apparent frenzy frenzy- Of fear far that you soon coon hurry a assay aay ay I to relieve bet her her- distress The nest nestI nestI I Is I hollowed out In the ground un- un under un under der the root root-of root of some come weed ced or bunch of alfalfa The most alluring thing of the summer has been the search for tor forthe forthe the ellow yellow throats y y y they have called au all summer front from the alfalfa the weevil were In the lar- lar larae lar larvae sac vae ae stage from the tho tamaracks and the willows where they bend down over the Irrigation ditches The Tho en- en enticing en enticing little song Bong has hILS come to be a challenge of Reach me sac reach me roach reach me But the shy little birds are always disappearing from the bushes ahead of you or they dive headfirst Into the tall taU wheat t so that thata 1 a glimpse of their gray green up- up upper up upper per parts or of the yellow under under- under parts parts part Is III all the reward one had had after months of ot careful strat atrat- atrat strategy egy Dr Plummer of ot Salt Lake Lako says aa they stay In iii the he marshes through the winter so success may yet be b ours I l LESSON TO The homo home life of the tho birds 1 li is so 0 I interesting that we scarcely miss mliS the full flush of their spring songs The song Rong s th the Ill sellow ow and the warbling vireos still pour out lh their lr songs as free free- free freely ly lv n a as ever eser r Th The cassin purple finches Cinches give pl splendid daybreak oh con con- concerts con concerts crts The headed Ck beak gro-beak still sings hI his beautifully tonel son song a as If It trying to chirm charni a be be- be beloved lovert loved sweetheart But July I Is the month of hom homes and of ot leasing them and human humans who have seen Impatient of Ild from parents look 1001 with lIh In- In InI In Interest terp terest t at the tho young birds who seem Instinctively to obey oby the tho advice ot of I the parent Bird life lire would be he ex- ex ex extinct If it th the young were were- as slow to learn the la law lass of o the wild as human In Inexperience is to learn from ex- ex ex |