OUR STORY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 82, 16 June 1944, Page 6

OUR STORY

SPRING TIME a v ■ Mrs Bellbird was very busy build- i, ing her nest for it was spring. Mr Bellbird was bringing her bits of straw and liay and she had been twisting round and round in a bunch of. hay and straw and gradually it was beginning to shape into a nest. At last after a lot. of work the nest was ready, both birds snuggled together in it and went to J sleep. The sun was just rising oyer < the hills when Mr and Mrs Bellbird « awoke. The first thing Mr Bellbird ' did was to go and get some food while Mrs Bellbird sat down again • in the nest. Mr Bellbird came home : with some nice ( l'at grubs and they had a lovely breakfast together. Every day for four days Mrs Bellbird laid an egg and on the fourth day she began to hatch them. It took 21 days, to hatch the eggs but at last one. day Mrs Bellbird heard a pop, pop, pop, and she knew that her eggs, were hatched, After waiting a while she got off the nest see if her new babies Avere alright. They hardly looked like, birds at all, they were just little balls of yellow fluff. When Mr tiellbird came home and saw the new babies he. sat on the branch and sang for joy. Both birds were busy now teaching their babies to eat and fly and sing. Very soon four young bellbirds were Hying about and singino' very sweetly watched by a proud mother and father. So, if you hear or see a bellbird it may be 1 one o Mr and Mrs Bellbird's family.