Go in peace, Mother Night, for the broad Sun will take good care of your bantlings during your absence.
The high-spirited bantlings had a way of pummelling one another in fistic duels, and of calling in their respective mothers when they got the worse of it--which is cowardly, but human.
In either case, the other mother would intervene, and then the two bantlings would retire into the background and leave their mothers to take up the duel while they resumed their interrupted game.
These interesting bantlings were twenty-four days old when it became necessary for me to leave them, as they had already left me.
For nearly four hours I watched the chirping couple, and peered, as I thought, into every nook and cranny of the place, but all in vain; neither nest nor bantlings could I find.
Being of nearly the same size, the queerly assorted bantlings lived in apparent peace in their narrow quarters.
One can readily fancy, therefore, that the nests of these birds are often surrounded with snow, and that the bantlings may get their first view of the world in the swirl of a snow-squall.
I hoped to find a nest, but my quest simply proved that the bantlings had already left their nurseries.
Replacing the youngster in its crib, I stepped back a short distance and watched the mother bird returning with another mouthful of "goodies," and feeding her bantlings four.
I found one nest with four callow bantlingsin it, but, much to my grief and anger, at my next call it had been robbed of its precious treasures.
While I stood quite close watching the little mother, she fed her bantlings twice without a quaver of fear, the youngsters chirping loudly for more of "that good dinner.
One day I tried my best to find a nest with eggs or bantlings in it, but failed, although, as a slight compensation, I succeeded in discovering three nests from which the young had flown.
No red-winged blackbirds had been seen in the Georgetown valley, while here there was a large colony of them, many carrying food to the bantlings in grass and bush.
It must not be supposed that the bantlings opened their mouths, as most young birds do, to receive the tidbits.
Yes, for I at last saw my bantlings transform themselves into the larva previously described and make their first start at draining their victims with kisses.
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