A Hermits Wild Friends Or Eighteen Years in the Woods
A Hermits Wild Friends Or Eighteen Years in the Woods
Mason Augustus Walton
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A few years ago a cowbird laid an egg in a chewink's nest. The chewink visited my dooryard. I did not remove the egg, but watched for the cowbird. Before the egg was hatched I shot the mother. I wanted to see if a young cowbird, reared without his own mother, would go out to the cow-pasture where there was a flock of old cowbirds. The che- winks reared the cowbird and three of their own babies. This was the first brood. When the mother chewink made a new nest, the father took care of the four l...ittle ones. Be- fore his mate hatched the second brood, he took his charge to a bird resort near a pond. This was near the cow-pasture, and the flock 217 A HERMIT'S WILD FRIENDS of cowbirds resorted to the pond for water. It gave the young cowbird a good chance to go with its kind. Several times I saw cow- birds approach the youngster, but he always fled as if he thought that his life was in dan- ger. He acted just as young tame crows do when they see other crows near them. That fall all the chewinks, that is, the old ones and the first brood, with the cowbird, remained about the dooryard until migration.
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