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Attracting Birds
'I‘u attract birds to our yard, I placed a low tree stump in the garden and kept a large flower-pot sntll'cr on '. tilled with water. Birds of many kinds came there to drink and bathe. \‘Vhen the Bluebirds arrived in the neighborhnntl I ptlt a Blue— hird house out on a pole, so that it was about ten feet from the ground In less than mo hours a pair of birds were inspect- ing the little tenement.
'I‘he Rollins came nextr When I dis- t'overed a Robin buildng in the cherry tree I made a mud-hath for him,—that is, I arranged a low dish filled with a mixture nt garden soil and inner, This preparation
i ts nu tnni-t- than placed under tht- tree He hopped into it and quit-kit made his little mud-halls. This nltl'nrteti innit lltiln nnt- pair of Rollins. ln int-t.
when the male hird came.
returning «rt-rill times. [lln’t‘ htliil in the ditlerent trees. 'l‘hirtt, t-nint lilt' Chipping Sparrows.
For them I scattered horse-hair about, anti
kept it ttith nt \t‘ntt‘r UII tln- grmtnd. Two of tin species lnlilt in thc yard. The Orioles appeared in Mn I tried
tr. (‘ilii their nttentinn In dropping mlorett yitrn< and strings nhntn in the grass and They came and trove their home alnuug tlle elm-tree Imughs. The male Oriole rarcd for the young tines and was kept ltusy taking fried to them. On one m't‘asiun l saw him in the street picking After he had the remainder of a
uu the hushcsv
and pulling at something.
tluwn array. I found
tent t‘aterpillar mrnon: he had extracted lllL' t-rnttclrt~ and gin-n it to the little onesl
the flier“ ripened ln- july. ninl nnnn
species ol ltirtls 0 mL‘ to the "UL It was (“films to time hmr tiifirrt‘nti} ther ate the I‘ltc Rollins puIIt-tl tiff lllL‘ cherries and tit-n tn the titltn-nlk. whet-c [lit-y pit-tell the Bluebirds attacked tlllly
lhllxe that had fallen un tlle ground; while
fruitl
[item It) pit-re
the Oriole are one as soon as he pulled it
lmnl it»' “cut, The Killgbird tretpiently
visited the tree. Instead of sitting on a hranch and pulling at one, as the Robins (lid, he poised himself in the air and tugged at the cherry until it was wrenched from its stem. Then he flew to the near birch and balanced the lrnit by giving it little tosses in the air. two or three inches above his head, catching it every time it fell. Finally
Durng the season seven hirtis built upon l the premisesiand why? It it was the bird bath, the mud and the nesting mate- rial about the yard, then birds can easily be attracted hymhcrxiMAKY El DOLKEAR, 7.1/2.» Cal/eye. Mart,
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disappeared down his throat.
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An Anti-Sparrow Food-Shelf
Mla W. “1. Grant of Summit, N. Jl, sends in the act‘ompanying plan tor a win» dow fond-shelf, to which, he writes, such rumpnralivciy wild birds as Tanngers. Flick- ers and others come. but which the English Sparrow will not, after one trial, visit. A 'II, and from
hoard i; hinged to the window- the far end (sec Cut) a string is run to the tnp at the ninttnn, with a light spring b:- (Weelll When a bird alights on the plat— lnrtn. the Ilttter will swing up and down, the amount at swing depending on the birds and the weight of the spring, to which the
string is altarlletii
(3°)
