D34-Lancast«r Fanning Saturday, June 7,1986
Editor’s Note:
Here’s the fifth of six articles by
Daniel Luke Fisher. Daniel tells
from an Amish boy’s view point
what happens around his family
farm. You may remember some of
the same experiences as you grew
up on the farm.
Spring is here!
The cherry tree up behind the
garden has hundreds of little white
buds on it.
The hedges are covered with
green leaves instead of just bare
branches.
The tulips are working their way
towards that.
The mountain is getting a hint of
green.
The fields are being plowed.
“Yep! Spring is here.”
Soon the hay mows will probably
be bursting with new mowed hay.
Tulips and daffodils now stand in
a glass jar on the once hot stove.
Starlings must give up their eggs
in despair when an eager nine
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year-old brother gets hold of them.
He now has 16 eggs, and has them
all arranged neatly in a little blue
box.
He keeps his eyes on the
starlings and watches where they
go. Usually they get some straw or
other material and fly straight for
the nest.
Samuel waits till they fly away
then sneaks up to the nest.
Last year Samuel and some of
his buddies collected sparrow
eggs.'They took them to school
every morning. When the total was
counted up it amounted to 63 eggs!
Yesterday Matthew found a'
starling nest in the cow stable. He
told Samuel.
They had to climb up through a
window to get to the nest. But I’m
sure Samuel thought the effort was
well worth it. Because he got 5 eggs
out of that nest.
Two house finches are nesting
right outside the window.
Once a robin was up in a tree
with a string in his beak. He tried
to fly away with it but couldn’t
because the string caught in a
branch. The robin had to fly away
without it. Later a house finch was
trying to get it but didn’t succeed.
So I guess it gave up.
The barn swallows with their
little chirps came flying back.
They nest in the cow stable. Dad
put some boards up on the beams
for the bam swallows to nest on.
By Daniel Luke Fisher
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