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VACANT LOTS ATTRACT BIRDS
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NEW ADVENTURES IN BIRDLAND
I got my wish: Our present home is a whole
house, with a yard. We have big trees and little
ones, and on one side there is a grape arbor. All
around us are vacant lots, where thornapple bushes,
dogwood trees, and tall sunflowers grow. These
attract birds. Behind the vacant lots there is a
ravine with wild cherry trees, elder bushes, wild
grape tangles, and other attractions for birds.
The wrens and the robins had gone to their winter homes when we moved, and the woodpeckers had come. I had bought a bird guide with colored pictures, and a pair of field glasses which brought those black and white birds very near to me. Some had red on the back of the head. They were the
