The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 41
SHOVELER DUCK (FEMALE AND YOUNG).Going for their first swim. WILD FOWL AT HOME It may be that in early spring months we haveseen the last wild ducks and geese depart fortheir summer homes in the North. They came inMarch and April, spent a few weeks here, fillingup their time by feeding and playing… … BUFFLEHEAD DUCK. Called butter-ball and butter-box because he is so fat. Nest-ing-place in a hole in the bank. The nest is also built in hollowtrees and stumps. in our fields and woods; but, although the domes-tic life of wild ducks and geese is passed in sur- roundings very different from those of…
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