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261. Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Description: This is not an exact likeness of the Humming Bird that we have here, but is the one which is commonly found in the East. Our bird is known as the Rufous Humming Bird, and differs slightly from this one. No bird in the world makes a more beautiful nest or becomes such a good companion as this one. It builds the tiniest sort of a cup nest on the top of a branch; perhaps the cottonwood tree, or the down from any of the willows, anything to make a soft lining. The eggs are so tiny that one doubts a bird could come out of them, and when hatched they are little black animals that look rather more like small lizards or reptiles of some kind than birds. Another peculiarity is that when they are young their bills are short like the swallow’s bill instead of long and slim like the bill of the parent. But before they leave the nest they develop the long bills. You can attract these birds to your home if you want to by putting a little sugar solution into some of the flowers growing nearby.

262. Western Horned Lark

Western Horned Lark

Description: These birds are the only members of their class in the United States. They are a little larger than the ordinary sparrow, and are colored much as the sparrow is. They can easily be recognized by the darker patch on the throat, the sort of mustache which runs back on the cheeks, a bright line over the eye, and the fact that the feathers may stick straight up so as to make a little horn over each eye. This shows on some of the birds in the back part of the picture. As you ride along in the country, these birds will fly out and run along in front of the machine or carriage, running a short distance, flying a little way, and then coming back and running along again. Some people in this country call them “Road Runners”. This, however, is not the true Road Runner found in the South, but it is a very interesting bird. We never find them in trees or bushes, but always on the ground. They are typical seed-eaters.

263. Willow Goldfinch and Greenbacked Goldfinch

Willow Goldfinch and Greenbacked Goldfinch

Description: The black-capped yellow bird sitting the the thistle is the willow goldfinch, then olive green bird to the right is the Green-backed goldfinch. They are abundant summer residents of the Pacific coast states, the willow goldfinch as far north as British Columbia, and the green-backed to the Columbia river. The green-backed goldfinch is more or less common in suitable localities in the interior valleys while the willow goldfinch is common from sea level to the mountains. Both are found along roadsides picking at thistle heads and dandelion and come freely into dooryards to feed and build their nests in the shrubbery. They consume great quantities of weed seeds and insects and should be carefully protected.

264. Western Meadow Lark

Western Meadow Lark

Description: Perhaps no description is needed for this common frequenter of our open meadows and hillsides. Mr. Lord says “such a rarely beautiful, endlessly varied, and wonderfully incessant singer! No bird anywhere has a fuller or richer note; none such variety of songs, except perhaps the mocking bird; none like this bird makes varied and joyous melody in summer and in winter, too; in rain, in snow, in cold.” One author in the West has written and described 35 different songs for the Western Meadow Lark; while the Eastern, some say, has thirteen, others, just one. It might be interesting to known that although called a Lark, it is in reality not a Lark at all, but belongs to the Oriole family.

265. Downy young Tufted Puffin

Downy young Tufted Puffin

266. California Murres and young

California Murres and young

267. Baby pheasant

Description: This is a young chick which has lost its baby down and is beginning to get its first feathers. It looks much like a brown leghorn chick.

268. Harris Sparrow

269. Wild geese

Description: Wild geese, Harney County

270. Young Kingfishers

Young Kingfishers