The Return of the Nuthatch i3
pearance of the camera within two feet of us for more than an hour, during which time twelve exposures were made, still she repeated all her
d o e s n ot want to, eat at once, and hides it in the trees for future use. c o m i n g quickly hack for more.
I feel sure it is the same bird. the first day of her reappearance I was attracted by her evident
because
desire to draw my attention to herself. in the compam' of several small boys, to whose presence she always rather objected, I did not attempt to call her to me: but the next day, at the same place, being alone, I held out my hand. and she immediately,
As I was at the time
little tricks, not only once. but several times. The series of pictures is quite characteristic of her manner of alighting and clinging to the fingers. thence making her way into my hand, very rarely flying directly into it. Owing to her limited powr ers of steering, due, I suppose. to the shortnes of her tail-feath- ers, to find it neces-
she seems
sary to assume a particular pose on a tree trunk before essaying llight t0 the
As for, merh'. she flies
hand.
away with what
she cannot. or
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without hesitation, flew to it for the nuts therein, and stayed with me
until Iwas obliged to leave her.
I have never seen her fly to anybody
else, and all who have seen her with me have been thoroughly convinced
that she recognized me.
