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One winter, during four or five weeks of severe weather, several of our winter birds were pensioners upon my bounty, -- three blue jays, two downy woodpeckers, three chickadees, and one kinglet, -- and later a snowbird -- junco -- appeared.
I fastened pieces of suet and marrow-bones upon the tree in front of my window, then, as I sat at my desk, watched the birds at their free lunch. The jays bossed the woodpeckers, the woodpeckers bossed the chickadees, and the chickadees bossed the kinglet.