ing the duties of nesting. ing season. The common bank swallow or sand mar- breed in excavations, for the sparrow hawk, nut- The woodpeckers are pre-eminent as excavators in tin is very abundant in sections, and I have seen as hatches, house wren, and brown creeper ar lay well solid wood, and… … When deep snow covers the ground, the skunk re- adee, digs out a shallow burrow in the decayed side of BANK WITH KINGFISHER'S NEST. an old stump in early May. Notrarely, after working mains in its burrow and the trappers are obliged to for a day or more, the pair encounter a layer of hard wait…
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