Citizen Bird

“We shall all be turned out, I know,” frets Barney the Barn Swallow from a telegraph wire. The House People are coming back to Orchard Farm—and they have changed the nesting places.

On a May morning, the birds of Orchard Farm trade news and worries as eagerly as any neighbors. Dr. Roy Hunter’s children are among the returning House People: Olive knows and loves birds, but her cousin Nat, fresh from the city, sees only “common tree birds” and has a pocket full of pebbles. As the children explore the birds’ homes and habits, the birds watch them in turn, wary of what human hands might do to a nest, a chimney, or a favorite branch. Can Nat learn what makes every bird uncommon?

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