Bird Notes, Part 1, v658
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(1970) it is Greenie's job to take care of two. At 8:35 Greenie was giving quite a long concert from the top of the old oak. When I found Brownie was in the berry patch and was feeding a young thrasher in a bush there, seemingly having changed places with Greenie, it cast doubts on the guess made in the preceding paragraph. However, Brownie began eating herself, without looking for another youngster, and after having given the one just fed by xherx xhaxx mouthfulxxxfxaoffkxfoodxwheraxhexxxktxnxtmxxmxh and I decided to in- vestigate. First, however, I approached the youngster in the bush with some food on the wooden spatula. He greeted me with a "hail" but reached for the food. On the second helping he swallowed the stick so far that he got it away from me and I had to take hold of it again and pull it out. Going down to the glade, I found Greenie in charge of the two babies there and gave him worms, which he fed them. So maybe it is his job to look out for two, after all. One of the young birds now in the glade is very lively and runs about on the ground quite a quiet lot. The others still remain fairly xxxxx in the bushes and trees. ( The place now fairly crawls with young robins, linnets, purple (finches, green back and Lawrence goldfinches, wren-tits, bush-tits, (plain titmice, spotted and brown towhees, wrens, thrashers (The purple finches and Lawrence goldfinches are building more nests, and the Chipping sparrow is carrying food.(Nest not located) At 9:20 I went to have a look at Greenie's doings on the extreme south-western edge of the glade. I gave him worms which he took up about ten feet in an oak and fed to a young thrasher. With a little persuasion he was making regular trips, taking worms from my hand and the box just like Brownie. Soon Brownie joined and fed another youngster in the glade. This was not the same one fed at the berry patch, for I went there and found him still there. Therefore, the young are not definitely apportioned off between the two adults after