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another. My experience has been that birds become attached to a house where they have safely fledged a brood, and if it is promptly cleaned they will return to it, rather than try a new one. But I have known instances where a pair began a second nesting before the young of their first brood were fledged. In such a case an extra house is convenient.

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My bluebird house is five by seven inches,^[1] and is so shaped as to afford depth. Sufficient height is

↑ These dimensions have been accepted and approved not only by my own bluebird neighbors, but by a bluebird pair reported in Bird Lore for July-August, 1916, as having nested in a cemetery, in an earthen jar that lay upon its side on a grave. The report goes: "The jar measured five inches across the bottom and about seven inches in length." There it is: five by seven!

[1] These dimensions have been accepted and approved not only by my own bluebird neighbors, but by a bluebird pair reported in Bird Lore for July-August, 1916, as having nested in a cemetery, in an earthen jar that lay upon its side on a grave. The report goes: "The jar measured five inches across the bottom and about seven inches in length." There it is: five by seven!

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