1. pets
2. birds

How
to
Attract
Wild
About
the
Sy NIEL
LADD
Creen^ch
Proiectinje
With
Illustrations,Mostly from
Photographs
To Which
of
the
ANNUAL
by
BIRD
Published
Bird
1915
Author
TECTIVE
PROINC.
by
Protective
Greenwich,
the
REPORT
GREENWICH
Greenwich
Taken
is Added
SOCIETY,
The
by
LANIER
D.
FIRST
Bird
Society
Introduction
an
CHARLES
THE
Home
MORROW
Presiii'snl of the
40
Birds
Conn.
Society,
Inc.
Copyright
By
NiEL
1915
Morrow
I^add
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PRESS
BROOKLYN
Introduction
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of
days
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have
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can
winter
cheery
in
only
was
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localities
many
bird
rare
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there
sights.
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commonest
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distinction
more.
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with
cardinal,
practically disappeared
color
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bird's
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striking
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brilliant, graceful and
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romantic
handsome
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pigeon,
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and
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small
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sects
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writer
bers
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sunset
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ing
interest-
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bit
noticed,
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insect
plant devouring
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them.
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insect
ugly
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toward
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pigeon.
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of
this
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There
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pests
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observation
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in
which
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insects
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varieties
of
tree
kinds.
showed
and
tion,
destruc-
lack
no
obviously
equally convincing
bird
scores
hundred
a
census
of
process
caterpillars and
plant-destroying bugs.
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bent
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where
from
in
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cats
peared
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finding
on
sweeping
being bagged
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the
September
neighbors,
a
of
open
boyhood.
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his
bird
pests, seemed,
of
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foliage
rely
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low
almost
ago,
fence
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mouth,
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and
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the
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of
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prying
boys
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lovers.
nature
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possible,
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the
community
through
guide
the
and
knowledge
every
association
of
so
America,
over
revolutionizing
have
endeavor
Bird
devotion
handbook
and
absolutely
sucessful
in
part
They
work
community
very
it is
John
Burroughs,
Frank
Sharp,
Chapman
study
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life, it
efficient
a
bird
make
To
But
life that
bird
all
of
true
like
chief
furnished
of
all
single generation
a
birds.
made
number
is not
new
a
habits,
human
boys.
any
helping
Lore
had
the
have
It
found
and
in
Dallas
have
have
in
youngsters
have
naturalists
toward
homes.
came
friends.
bird
Seton,
of
and
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start
time.
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of
thousands
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to
Thompson
the
collection,
egg
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gets
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it up.
youngsters,
yet, of
as
actively studying
Writers
greater
short
so
oldsters, too,
enemies
the
in
Americans
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sees
ancestors,
transformation
localities
many
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say
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fledglings safely
wonderful
very
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when
hunting
it
feeding
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seeing
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but
cats
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change
birds
parent
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boys,
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and
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breaking
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trove
treasure
from
time
of
thinks
that
you
world.
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to
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did,
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squirrels
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thing
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honestly
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last
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smashing
to
birds
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day
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attitude
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absolutely
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attitude
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life from
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country
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Birds
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following
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used
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the
number
time
to
The
most
condensed
increase
the
list of
which
It
is
wonderfully
taken
for
the
necessity
means
to
It
might
what
the
presence
digestion
the
on
A
all
seed
failure
birds
artificial
food
no
that
as
the
over
birds,
mean
a
as
insect
from
sketch
to
briefly
to
you.
to
keep
whether
food,
azines,
mag-
stantly
con-
it be
an
diet.
food
local
Therefore,
sources
district
the
in
to
one
attract
can
of
supply
constant
a
to
move
time, when
winter
scarce,
are
furnishing
by
birds
forces
supply
substitute
which
we
supplies,
nature
days
when
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will
ofifer
can
or
winter
be
feeding
renders
snow
eagerly
as
tides
their
the
natural
inaccessible.
For
spends
minute
every
hour
an
grubs,
beetles,
trunks
or
time
of
emphasized
our
compelled
are
chosen
their
and
have
of
will
gestions
sug-
food.
While
birds
for
natural
given
a
birds
rapid,
so
birds
hand.
newspapers
well, however,
winter
starve.
or
from
to
sought
the
of
localities
kinds
is
the
lookout
weed
or
other
of
be
one's
these
$800,000,000
of
times
importance
conservation
loss
such
read
economic
books,
the
visiting
from
who
best
them.
to
At
Bulletins,
wide
annual
weeds.
insect
nation
a
the
and
the
past,
lessen
pests
As
of
those
Government
as
of
that
years
attractive
eating
to
is the
season
food.
of
be
may
compared
hungry,
often
tame,
aware
several
well
as
search
granted
already
For
life.
in
this
when
sent
pre-
home.
when
ground
brave
houses
one's
spring,
to
which
is small
one's
become
of
are
bird
the
endeavored
methods
about
birds
making
timid
become
life
in
has
the
winter
arrive
commence
writer
form
bird
to
neighborhood
they
the
pages
will
If
digging
etc.,
branches.
be
your
spent
suet
bird
a
out
from
If
the
seed
at
your
hibernating
beneath
seeking
and
stays
bird
those
attracts
bark
be
of
a
insects,
or
seed
noxious
many
feeding
from
eater,
insect
eggs,
decayed
most
it
device,
tree
of
his
weeds.
birds,
you
may
be
\
Downy
Woodpecker
at Suet
mil
Whitebreasted
Nuthatch
6
Eating
Peanuts
that
sure
garden, orchard,
your
the
productive
of
following
countless
Birds
need
bushes,
in
the
vines
One
with
and
middle
winds
of
boasts
southern
a
struction
de-
weed
and
mies.
ene-
few
be
ren,
bar-
birds, whereas
any
with
overgrown
exposure,
will
A
winter.
of
fairly
alive
pine,
spruce
birds
with
winter.
finds
windbreaks.
birds
They
find
the
evergreens,
of
always
they
from
country,
hillside
protected
more
the
of
result
insect
be
will
Protection.
protection
wind-swept
their
of
Winter
the
as
summer,
thousands
fields
and
woods
do
enough
in
roosting
fear
not
eat, and
to
low
lock
hem-
and
temperatures
from
shelter
vided
pro-
winter
biting
winds.
Preferably,
for
place
the
should
food,
south
side
lunch
device
a
of
which
selected.
be
house
your
for
FOR
Beef
half-inch
of
tree
any
of
the
or
supply
post,
following
more
chicadees,
on
than
as
birds
others
flickers, blue
wire
a
and
nourishing
which
The
made
is
a
is
Select
better
branch
of
suet,
wasted,
the
birds
tack
is to
way
none
a
larger
large piece
easy.
then
it is
the
better
method
this
a
as
and
south
side
from
the
protected
storms.
attracted
are
:
jays,
starlings, tree
relished
when
suet,
certain
shows
b}''many
species
nuthatches,
warblers,
myrtle
crows,
illustration
are
by
woodpeckers,
Downey
Suet
convenience
over
tie to
that
so
A
day.
and
pound
cord,
the
first
winter
others.
some
For
for
food
best
producing,
about
hairy woodpeckers,
creepers,
strung
and
cheapest
heat
is
By
prevailing
The
eating
the
wire. netting
illustration.
the
force
it the
demolish
replenishing
and
It
piece weighing
a
not
square
of
birds.
Suet.
Out
is
suet
string, criss-crossing
will
dow
win-
and
spoil.
not
Take
in
mutton
or
eating
with
table
choose
FEEDING.
WINTER
Putting
does
feeding
a
counter.
DEVICES
insect
possible,
Where
your
with
protection
combines
sparrows,
unroasted
brown
juncos,
peanuts
birds.
Holder.
replenishing
the
supply,
a
suet
Weather
Vane
Feeding
Society
Table
Made
by
the
Suet
Holder,
w^ith
the
Seed
Hopper
Cover,
Society
made
by
holder
has
mesh
in
its
wire,
the
from
sleet
and
that
of
many
acti\e
The
The
board.
a
one
contents
protects
cats
the
of
the
.\ttach
fruit
tree
of
the
eggs
holders
suet
spring
cannot
mentioned
species
eats
orchards
throughout
destroyers
chicadee
caterpillar,
hunting
to
which
c()\er
distributed
be
particularly
tent
zinc
a
tacked
half-inch
of
made
be
may
snow.
attract
example:
The)'
netting
has
should
to
means
and
crocheted
or
illustration
Suet
are
acUantages.
upon
at
which
above,
enemies.
For
moth
coddling
least
five feet up
unsuspecting
}our
a
as
so
bird
guests.
Seed
This
automatic
from
the
seed
Hopper.
Society.
the
snow
juncos,
purple finches,
blue
eating
natural
following
nuthatches,
quail.
seed
their
covers
The
weed
to
a
post
or
be
can
tree,
or
it
chased
purwill
Table
birds
with
food
at
such
times
as
supply.
birds
song
easily made,
Nailed
Feeding
furnish
is
hopper
will
visit
sparrows,
jays,
and
the
tree
sometimes
hopper
sparrows,
meadow
:
Chicadees,
goldfinches,
larks
and
Fill with
sunflower
and
buckwheat
other
weather
with
and
the
often
wind,
the
biscuit, meat
of broken
This
table
affords
of
the
be
may
will
from
dwellings.
given,
one's
near
adults
return
table,
it is safe
and
the
again
still closer
to
to
should
to
heavy
the
Once
the
be
a
to
again
for
that
assume
lunch
wire
often
when
the
find
it
ground
drawn
weeks.
ment
entertain-
much
wild
other
fruits
are
the
winter
and
had
of
dainties
the
will
you
birds,
the
feeding-
them
want
to
come
Lunch
Counter.
is
counter
timidity.
have
nearer
is
food,
one
From
this
day,
to
with
the
south
touch
to
in
use
nearby
a
facing
allowed
discovered
each
medium
8 is furnished
(size No.
with
the
tree
car)
preferred.
the
tree.
feeding place,
new
birds
until the
to
it
fiy fearlessly
shelf.
window
devices
made
supplied
once
several
afford
uations
sit-
to
be
can
when
for
and
story window,
second
birds
that
so
they
host
natural
supplied
Cutting
lunch
birds
window.
your
their
overcoming
car,
kind
any
birds.
and
suspended
The
dog-
children.
Suspended
sill of
and
They
attention
house,
played
once
them
the
tioned
men-
crushed
particularly adapted
is
elderberries, bay berries
Having
a
as
needs
their
further
no
eagerly sought by
stretch
the
species
crumbs,
furnished,
device
feeding
need
both
Dried
The
bread
for
dimensions
placed
for
the
All
birds.
from
protection
roost.
terior,
in-
the
wildest
the
listed before, add
grain
doughnuts,
removed
than
If
night
of
lights
this table.
Grit
type
food
glass-window
is protected
food
the
that
the
into
set
post
a
snow.
far
with
so
timidity
get sufficient
to
wind,
the
a
and
suet
nuts.
with
as
visit
scraps,
impossible
larger
used
will
Besides
deep
feeding
being
above
is
of
style
on
A
snow.
thereby overcoming
This
table
feeding
vane
rain
Feeding Table
Vane
ground, always swings
from
canary,
grains.
Weather
This
millet, hemp,
seeds, Japanese
down
will
the
increase
variety
your
of food
bird
counter.
to
on
stationary
the
patrons
at
the
ing
feed-
suspended
Neither
the
shelf
window
but
they help
stimulate
to
particularly among
'J^he
parts of the country.
birds
about
broken.
birds
the
Having
There
which
that
to
access
sufficient
find
always
supply,
constant
a
to
tide
simple
form
consists
moulding
A
small
of
the
prevents
or
e^'ergTeen
birds, besides
that
them
Nearly
Feeding
board
all the
to
guar-
weather
will
they
the_\'again
have
seed
Shelf.
shown
from
branches
to
sill.
scattered
being
of
the
to
the
in
A
to
wind.
attract
strings
suet,
narrow
b}' the
bayberry help
tie the
tion,
illustra-
of
the
berries
cran-
species
listed
before
be
noted
one
have
taken
food
from
shelves.
might
Meriden,
window,
obligated
until
tacked
affording places
window
What
in
the
with
relations
in bad
shelf, as
Improved Window
"if the
be
never
Society
the
o^'er
ter
win-
peanuts.
or
similar
wide
by
so
of window
a
Made
must
all
furnishes.
nature
Window
A
is
one
Counter
Lunch
rule
friendly
food,
in
attracting the
in
cardinal
one
with
them
ject,
sub-
this
successful
proven
magic
no
established
once
Suspendcd
them
but
home,
1)}-furnishing
antee
is
tion,
protec-
girls.
ha\'e
foregoing suggestions
ter
coun-
or
in
interest
greater
and
boys
attraction
bird
scientific
of
essentially part
are
lunch
suspended
the
nor
N.
at
H.
extending
termed
the
It
into
de
a
home
the
luxe
of
is best
Shelf
feeding
Mr.
Ernest
described
room
11
about
device
as
is
Harold
an
tweh-e
a
cop\-
Baynes
inverted
ba}'
inches.
The
Juncos
Mocking
at
Window
Bird
Shelf, showiDg
on
Suspended
lunch
12
"Birds'
Christmas
Counter,
January
Tret"
15th
floor
of
ample
wood
extends
to
space
a
entertain
foot
Easily CoDstructed
is made
It
^ash
is raised.
to
fit
1"he
birds
many
snugly
side
at
'Window
into
toward
building, afifording
the
outside
Feeding
the
the
time.
one
Shelf
when
frame
should
room
the
be
lower
hinged
^ffww|
Improved
so
as
access
to
to
enable
the
one
to
suspended
Shelf
Window
ventilate
the
lunch
counter
13
room,
as
just
well
as
described.
to
gi\ e
Mr,
mentions
seeing
his
in
Rayucs,
recent
"Wild
often
filled
box
window
his
grosbeaks, redpolls, crossbills, chicadees,
other
birds
The
of
owner
relationship with
male
patience, plus
little
sunflower
perhaps
a
of
some
choice
seeds,
enjoy
to
one
shelf
window
a
the
jays,
many
such
as
a
of
experience
walnut
A
meat,
and
distrust
their
overcome
inti-
most
pensioners.
feathered
his
the
culti\-ate
can
morsel,
will
while
numbers."
smaller
in
come
"blue
with
pmc
have
Guests,"
Bird
book,
feeding
able
en-
the
from
birds
or
hand.
Food
This
idea,
borrowed
House.
tried.
satisfactory wherever
proven
is five
feet
square,
Food
eight
it is best
to
locate
feet
and
House
feeding place, as
permanent
Baron
from
well
it amongst
The
high
Slielter
as
on
Berlepsch,
von
one
in
the
peak.
at
has
tion
illustra-
the
Being
a
Post
afl'ordingprotection,
one
evergreens,
or
in
a
sheltered
position.
The
extend
interior
on
is
all sides
lighted through
about
a
foot
14
the
below
glass windows,
the
ca\es.
This
which
sash
also
serves
on
the
as
a
wind.
windbreak,
a
level with
The
birds
Food
Berlepsch
shelf
small
about
is discontinued
On
with
and
the
left in
the
several
of
hundreds
of
of
of
been
are
far
in
by
several
whose
all
of
use
upper
which
one.
be
a
the
minimum
country
of
means
of
homes
cost
are
caretakers.
hunted
outweighs
when
the
houses, furnished
would
at
the
the
food
birds
on
by
construction.
found
these
form
plat-
scattered
placed
food
ground,
desirable
so-called
our
by
the
on
being
to show
the
have
birds
Shelters.
Quail
have
is omitted
above
Particularly
charge
Among
edge
self-feeding hoppers,
li\es
effort.
Glass
feet
estates,
from
first attracted
House.
once
large
lower
arc
two
automatic
saving
their
food
the
preventing
that
states
of
birds,
game
of thousands
tens
economic
of
many
by
the
the
those
species
of gunners
for
insect
value
as
birds
which
Federal
15
or
are
Migratory
which
tions,
genera-
destroyers
now
Bird
tected
proLaw.
Space permits only
known
all of
to
Quail
a
mile
from
they destroy 150
summer
winter
they
Ice
afford
126
eat
bad
crops
and
work
less
moving
they
than
more
In
hatched.
are
the
during
seeds.
often
such
of
covey
"
"
insects, while
of
snows
shelter, as
A
which
weed
of
tepees,
needed
buckwheat.
kinds
heavy
Straw
them
better
kinds
and
storms
starvation.
well
in
shown
as
as
places
ranks
their
thin
illustration,
the
in which
ter
scat-
to
vegetable garden
quail in
a
for
gardener. Quail
the
by
means
have
no
habits.
Nesting
The
of
trees
cutting
The
the
Birds,"
of the
as
OF
*
One
will
and
more
bird
FOR
BOXES
Bulletin, "Bird
houses
and
16
How
for
are
"How
the
a
pecker
wood-
nest.
listed
to
fruit
below,
Attract
Biological Survey.
SPECIES
VARIOUS
open.
Houses
the
ridding
of
choose
Bulletin,
published by
sides
members
would
use
and
timber
robbed
Farmers'
NESTING
or
standing
has
Birds.
Attract
to
places they
which
prepared
Farmers'
of dead
from
excerpt
Boxes
branches
species
DIMENSIONS
From
out
decayed
family
in
residents,seldom
localityin
the
quail
specie
one
White."
"Bob
as
permanent
are
two
or
us
of
consideration
the
+ All
sides
to
Build
open
Them"
OF
BIRDS
Blue
Wren
Bird
on
Nesting
Home-made
in Home-made
18
Box
Box
Access
where
the
brown
of this
cocoons
had
be
must
to
tail
and
moth
the
house
English
helping
fall is
have
lost
arri^-e
birds
which
to
their
in
the
spend
the
results
come
Baron
von
the
meet
the
the
wren,
for
the
by
N.
one
the
the
occupied by
hole
entrance
This
98
garden pests,
to
mon
com-
prevents
specie
per
cent.
nesting boxes,
out
put
and
of
odor
of
paint by
birds
Winter
for
often
lights
de"jf
they
as
the
time
use
them
the
in
of
boxes
the
of each
a
comparison
the
of
wood
a
H.
)9
the
in
est,
small-
duck.
natural
by special machinery, imported
at
House
Bird
Audubon
Company,
made
vary
ities
cav-
Compared
specie, from
largest size, for
by
servationist,
con-
the
They
themselves.
Box
surest
greatest
replicas of
exact
il!)Berlepsch
the
Invented
world's
the
are
woodpeckers
Cavity and
family,
houses.
Berlepsch
Ciermany,
requirements
to
Woodpeckers.
woodpecker
the
of
use
illustration shows
The
with
down
nesting
(A) Natural
to
diameter
Boxes
the
these
size
be
night.
Berlepsch
by
in
spring.
from
drilled
will
time
members
attract
Wrens.
box
newness
Nesting
To
the
remo\'e
of insects.
good
a
for
taking possession.
keep
to
consisting
Late
a
to
moth.
Boxes
inch
from
sparrows
its food
of
An
wren.
in
will
kind
any
districts
in
and
nests,
prc\alent,
is
gypsy
Nesting
Nearly
old
remove
cavity
from
many
Ger-
Meriden,
Wren
on
Berlepsch
Box"
Suet
Holder
Below
Tree
Wren
Box
Made
Swallow
by the
20
Nesting in Berlepsch
Society
Box
on
Post
For
the
and
those
who
illustrations
How
for their
to
want
taken
Make
from
Them,"
construction.
ni
make
to
Farmers'
by
Ned
Smaller
ones
their
nesting boxes,
own
Bulletin,
Dearborn,
be
may
"Bird
give
made
Houses
full details
to
comply
t
"-"y"^-i
Flicker
with
the
downey
dimensions
with
given
woodpeckers,
Woodpeckers
Box
in
Specifications
the
table,
the
blue
for
tree
swallows,
etc.
differ
from
21
bird,
tree
swallow.
Nesting
The
Only
Roxes
on
Posts
Attract
Martin
in
Colony
in the Writer's
Garden
Purple
22
Birds
Greenwich
is
"wren,
nuthatches,
nest.
The
bed
for
All
bark
sawdust
least
at
nesting boxes,
should
on,
be
painted.
only specie
boxes
with
This
bird,
only
the
in
two
certain
for
Shelter
houses
long
South.
The
very
1^
entrance
above
covering
the
sparrows
quickest
at
least
succeed
solution.
fifteen
in
feet
is
with
the
building
Martin
high,
their
houses
from
away
23
in shrubbery
out
be
of
this
trees
from
in
the
numbers
martin
the
hole
directly
kept
August
out
until
by
the
attention, English
nests,
should
Post
on
by making
half-inch
can
to
martin
established
kept
found
is
attributed
increasing
end
martin.
purple
arrive
to
a
nesting
occupy
Placed
sparrows
from
is preferred.
use
country,
owners
be
diameter,
or
scarcit)'is
If, notwithstanding
in
the
to be
can
holes
entrance
colonies
detrimental
intruder
the
with
brown
or
which
rightful
logs
is the
Its
Others"
light. English
following April.
in
starling,which
latter
admit
to
their
them
Houses.
sparrows,
Birds, and
Cat
pro\'ing
inches
live
from
green
Colony
to-day.
English
German
The
dark
A
throughout
before
is
made
compartments
localities
a
as
attract
to
up
act
a
sawdust.
will
common
Robins,
rapidly,
colonies.
which
make
to
exca\ating
put
those
Martin
more
of
presence
Nest
or
once
of
except
Purple
The
houses
inch
an
material
no
left after
Therefore
eggs.
contain
must
and
chips
their
by takinj^ in
etc.,
a
be
and
shotgun
placed
on
is the
poles
buildings.
Downy
Bluebird
Woodpecker
at
Suet
Berlepsch
Feeding Young.
24
House
on
Post.
Robin
Barn
Swallows
Nested
Using
Under
Nest
Porch
Stielter
at
26
Mr.
in
Geo
Pergola
P.
Dominick,
Jr.'s
Home
whorls
which
expedient
be
done
If
cut
stop
in
the
and
during
the
breeding
thorns
spruce,
excellent
and
Tied
Poplars,
when
when
Up
Douglas
sites.
nest
others
blackberries,
ground
quail, grass
Bushes
offer
about
of
this
cut
resulting
the
can
in
a
home.
nesting birds,
nesting
as
bobolinks,
field should
not
season.
to
Nesting-Places
Provide
Scotch
spruce,
famil}',as
pruned,
back,
27
pine
and
cedars
barberry, Washington
Japanese
properly
severely
in
one's
simple
line, but
boundary
own
undergrowth,
birds
This
building.
nest
one's
at
protect
larks
White
when
roadside
nearby
would
we
seek
not
increase
meadow
be
need
to
marked
birds
well
as
make
afford
gooseberries
and
cat-proof refuges.
excellent
nest
sites.
Goldfinch
on
28
Bird
Bath
Selected
List
of Trees
and
of Which
Fruit
the
Shrubs,
Birds
Like.
(From
Common
Baynes'
Name.
Scientific
jHackberry
*Flowery (logwood
Cornus
*Cargent'!'.
cherry
Prunus
*Sand
Prunis
Ilex
cherry
cherry
cherry
*Choke
tRed
Arnoldiana
opaca
alba
Morus
rubra
Prunus
pennsylvanica
sargentii
pumila
Prunus
serotina
virginiana
Juniperus virginiana
Juniperus
tSpice bush
Benzoin
the
Sept. through winter
Augu st-December
rtugust September
October
through winter
June-August
June-August
June-October
June
June-.\ugust
July-November
July-August
the year
Throughout
the year
Throughout
June-October
August-November
Prunus
cedar
of
Fruiting Season.
Name.
Marus
tCommon
juniper
tShad bush
Most
Guests.")
florida
Crataegus
fAmerican
holly
*White
mulberry
*Rcd
mulberry
*Bird cherry
*Black
Bird
Celtis occidentalis
thorn
tWliite
"Wild
communis
Amelanchier
canadensis
aestivale
cornels
tHuckleberry
Gaylussacia
alder
July-September
cata
ca
tPrickly gooseberry
Ribes
Cynosbati
July through the winter
July-May
Tuly-September
the year
Throughout
August through winter
June-.September
fBlack
tWild
Ribes
floridum
August-September
fBlack
fBayberry
*Fragrant
*Dwarf
*Poison
Ilex verticillata
Myrica carolmensis
Rhus
sumac
canadensis
sumac
Rhus
copallina
sumac
Rhus
vernix
currant
Rosa
rose
*Wild
blackberry
*Highbush blackberry
*Highbush blueberry
tHighbush cranberry
Rubus
AUegheniensis
Rubus
frondosus
Vaccinium
June-September
corymbosum
Opulus
Virburnum
winter
August through
July-September
July-August
humiles
July-April
Vines.
fVirginia creeper
Psedera
fFox
Vitis Labrusca
grape
The
kinds
of
fruits
marked
birds.
Those
with
a
dagger
Bird
In
districts
greatest
both
for
object by being
inches,
Ordinary
are
to
be
flower
the
birds
form
deep.
too
with
pot
a
or
by thirty
or
more
species.
more
a
and
The
bath
lacking, it
furnished
is of the
with
will
to
long
so
water,
should
less
labor
in
a
of
their
from
var}-
insure
suffice,but
it is shallow.
as
short
fall
pools
depth
bottom
preferred, requiring
be
is
purposes.
of
rough
saucers
eaten
ten
supply
fountains
ornate
are
Baths.
drinking
little the
(*)
(f) by
natuial
that
and
bathing
Many
three
a
importance
It matters
to
where
August-October
asterisk
an
with
September-February
quinquefolia
safe
one
footing.
larger receptacles
keeping the bath
filled.
Properly
for
little money.
made
concrete
All
bird
have
gardens
29
baths
some
can
now
corner
be
in
bought
which
a
bird
bath
will
patrons
be
may
placed
constant
a
pro^"e
source
Bird
In
this
of
bird
natural
crows.
in
tinn
chapter
life
enemies
of
blueja\s
and
bird
the
the
elements,
Trap
made
of
presence
the
by
trying'to
the
destruction
of the
have
the
way
birds.
seek
tion
destruc-
taken
toll
by
the
shrikes,
owls,
become
ed
interest-
further
informa-
confront
former
destro)'their
than
enemy
they
eggs
red
are
cates
advothat
states
our
cat.
named
"The
in out-of-the-
nest
half-hearted
jcarlv,
do
who
Sur\cv
rigiith
as
broods
nests
the
sparrow,
and
those
further
and
and
cats
Biological
of traps, and
places, raising" four
Society
Protective
homeless
The
English
air,'is \vary
to
Bird
which
greater
no
Unfortunately
of the
the
of
has
one
sparrows,
handicaps
bring"back
rat
the
naturally
Greenwich
English
are
birds
taken
by hawks,
After
will
squirrels
native
be
nor
birds
weasels.
he
entertainment.
subject.
Sparrow
the
will
smaller
protection,
upon
The
the
by
of
Enemies.
account
no
feathered
its
where
advantage
to
little to
lessen
paigns
cam-
their
numbers.
Not
content
their
nests
for
The
the
the
past
notable
writer
four
and
attributes
out
drive
shooting" have
of
to
put
for
more
species
away
able
desirwhich
open.
years,
increase
boxes
sparrows
the
in
'IVaps, poison
the
usurp
English
tenants,
build
to
with
bird
his
a
total
life in
been
score
the
used
of
l)y the
7,000
sparrows.
territor}^in question,
persistent persecution
30
writer
f)f this
pest.
The
effective
when
by
on
the
their
a
removed
released.
in
sparrows
the
captive
grain, having
Bulletin
which
493,
"The
be
can
accomplishes
Feed
small
for
several
surrounding
in
To
methods
place
the
eggs,
of
their
desert
in
ft
check
of
referred
are
living
being
plied,
sup-
danger,
will
Farmers'
to
of
Pest," copies
a
of
Department
culture
Agri-
long
to
narrow
of
moment
sweep
the
The
shot.
trigger released
the
by
them.
on
the
from
the
the
by
to
that
until
the
English
the
be
abo\c
sparrows
of
removiny
clutch
of
five
is
persistent robbing
that
It is said
of
long string.
a
full
the
is
easily
can
gun
lows:
fol-
food
length
simple expedient
wait
to
trough
recommend
find
will
as
sparrows
it the
to
done
when
discourage nesting pairs
will
is
out
no
the
doubt
but
that
so
against English
bird
that
pest, but
than
houses
it could
as
be
them
permit
done
at
quickly
but
sparrows,
to
community
a
were
discourages beginners
Nothing
no
readily
are
they
will
desirous
of
neighborhood.
There
up
find
they
water
as
hundreds
each
people,
destroying
the
war
and
results
naturally object
is better
nests
cleaning
tered
scat-
by keeping
the
to
a
flock
at
the
j^oung
kept
laid before
and
who
to
be
they
being
placed
so
kill dozens
those
may
which
elements
great
until
days
shotgun
will
secured
grains
escape,
Sparrow
from
grains
neighborhood
A
out.
trough
top,
hardship.
many
by writing
point
accidentally caught
no
reader
English
secured
Shooting
put
the
through
the
Washington.
at
ground
here,
so
go
of
to
Food
suffer
very
proven
birds
mixed
obtained
are
decoys.
as
sparrows
discussed
be
from
birds
results
trap
small
Unable
trap.
Native
lowest
of
chamber,
Best
the
Poisoned
not
the
hand.
by
easily
of
smaller
a
the
has
The
yards.
in
supply
generous
i^oor
to
way
holes
entrance
attracted
illustration
in chicken
placed
cone-shaped
the
in
trap
sparrow
it
to
little
this continuous
as
better
were
cost.
to
increase
help
put
this
pest.
The
Not
until
has
one
the
wrought
homeless
the
pet cat, whose
his
turned
case
cats.
attention
does
conservationist
confronting
by
Problem.
Cat
This
will be
31
does
considered
he
to
the
realize
problems
the
not, however,
separately.
ha\oc
absohc
Devouring
the Victim,
Hunting
the
The
Capture
These
Prey
Phoiographs
taken
at 4
a.
m.
in
June, 1914
Robin's
Cat
Nest
Trap
of
in Crotch
Made
by
34
the
Poplar
Society
tain
cat
with
six bells of various
at
4
in
the
o'clock
which
the
of
of
writer, although
photographed
was
killingand
cat, sleek
nesting
past
the
sizes,
act
same
and
mauling
fledgling
to
twenty-eight
season,
morning
one
a
fat, brought
burdened
bird.
cat-
veranda
our
birds,
of
none
it ate.
Cat
If
the
the
in
This
during
household
Guards
estimate
Forbush,
of
and
fifty birds
birds
are
Nesting
Holding:
Posts
establishes
cat
reasonable
a
7,000,000
that
Trees
nourished
well
a
for
cat
per
such
per
one.
The
killed
annually
Boxes
record, is
a
made
year,
by
in
cats
Prof.
by
authority
same
not
estimates
New
land
Eng-
alone.
The
and
mice
is
and
protect
In
trap
in
attracted
half
cats
on
the
nesting
a
that
half
truth.
The
owning
cats
time.
At
by
broiled.
still
down
keep
to
has
taken
depend
rats
pains
largely
to
upon
birds.
young
least
keep
adult
to
Confine
it indoors
birds, but
cat
your
at
night
do
during
if you
not
the
would
birds.
localities
the
cats
writer
give warning
may
killing of
the
need
we
traps.
mouse
Bells
lessen
only
made
households
that
note
rat
statement
overrun
illustration
the
The
with
will
bait, which
batit
is
half-starved
prove
effective.
be
should
impaled
tramp
on
a
The
cats, the
cat
cat
enters,
grisly beef, preferably
nail at
the
back
of
the
trap, reached
of
this
nail
and
a
small
caught
a
loop
is
which
arms,
through
The
set.
the
holds
in turn
door
of
wire
door
the
slightest attempt
meat,
the
removes
the
at
the
on
the
cat
to
the
allows
which
loop
cross^
trap is baited
of
part
point
the
from
the
when
the
; over
running
up
wire
rear
move
re-
door
fall.
to
kill the
To
chloroform
half
Red
be
their
Survey
the
birds
to
drawn
his information
the
the
List
Methods
Our
Bird
Attract
to
Useful
Birds
Life.
and
Their
Wild
Bird
Guests.
Wild
Life
Conservation
and
Hornaday
Wild
in
Bird
to
H.
By
used
to
to
give
he
has
reader
the
to
subject:
Conservation.
Trafton.
By
Hornaday.
Martin
Edward
Hieseman.
H.
Forbush.
Baynes.
and
Theory
tion.
conserva-
which
this
to
T.
Birds.
Harold
ical
Biolog-
be
to
Life
William
Protection.
Ernest
By
Practice,
By
Dr.
William
T.
C. Walcott.
F.
of
Propagation
The
By
Protect
and
Dr.
life
from
By Gilbert
Attracting Birds.
of
Vanishing
How
Relating
bird
time, refers
to
the
by
writer, desiring
conservation
time
protected
not
methods
publications relating
Publications
of
of
birds,
young
are
on
the
home,
from
list of
and
They
of
in
door, and
reset.
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gun.
of
ounce
an
rear
be
to
authorities
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pioneers
following
small
both
suggestions
about
credit
a
with
is recommended
other
as
these
Concluding
attract
of
with
destruction
well
as
the
trap is ready
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in check
kept
and
law
by
through
squirrels,destroyers
best
can
time
saturated
sponge
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is inserted
hour's
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Birds.
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With
Pest.
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How
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Farmers'
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Bulletin
and
Houses,
Bulletin
The
Sparrow
Common
Farmers'
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We
It?
By
By
Ned
M.
S. and
Dearborn.
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A.
Lacey.
Farmers'
letin
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Relation
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to
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Ned
Dearborn.
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Farm-
609.
Attract
Bulletin
Economic
Second
Report
Report
of
the
Their
No.
Birds
Value
of
in the
Northeastern
States.
By
W.
L.
McAtee.
621.
No.
the
Brush
of
Birds
Meriden
Hill
Bird
to
the
Bird
State.
Frank
Club, Meriden, N.
Club, Milton,
36
By
Mass.
M.
H.
Chapman.
First
Greenwich
Annual
Report
Bird
Society,
19
15
37
Protective
Inc.
The
Bird Protective
Greenwich
Society^Inc.
NIEI.
TWACHTMAN
ALDEN
I.ADD
MORROW
Vice-President
President
E.
A.
MONTGOMERY
CHESTER
WOOD
Secretary
Trbasurer
RAYMOND
THOMPSON
B.
General
Board
ROGER
S.
H.
R.
W.
HIGHET
A.
S.
HOUGHTON
D.
W.
W.
HUBBELE,
E.
Jr.
EADD
C.
D.
SEWELL
SPIEKERMAN
GRAHAME
SMYTHE
B.
MARBLE
E.
C.
WILLS
E.
A,
WOOD
Committee
BALDWIN
NIEL
LANIER
RAYMOND
F. B.
THOMPSON
TWACHTMAN
ALDEN
MONTGOMERY
S.
B.
NICHOLS
PELL
RAYMOND
Executive
ROGER
D.
EANIER
CHESTER
V.
C.
FRANK
MORROW
NIEL
MORTON
FISHER
B.
C.
of Governors
BALDWIN
S.
F.
GEORGE
Manager
HIGHET
38
MORROW
LADD
B.
THOMPSON
What
the Greenwich
Has
On
the
Accomplished
evening
an
ation
preser\
with
Club,
the
the
\\'ithin
of
been
aims
of
Society,
our
its
plans,
of
importance
bird
meant
insect
and
pests
man,
every
an
illustrated
of
that
weeds.
child
to
the
help
was
with
the
printed,
the
reports
bird
our
with
an
and
life
due
$800,000,000
attract
lining
out-
economic
great
in
closed
tractive
at-
resident
was
of
fir.st
town
Government
loss
circular
The
its
townspeople
increase
and
England."
every
circular
any
taken
make
to
from
annual
and
woman
the
Extracts
the
Pi'otective
Officers
Xew
emphasizing
as
show^
lessening
a
acquaint
had
of
for
Greenwich
Bird
of
town
To
life.
to
bird
Country
birds.
town
co-operation
well
as
included,
were
to
life, the
solicited.
earnestly
this
Society being
our
in
tjreenwich
and
"the
of
the
at
dul}' incorporated;
elected,
object
bird
to
and
formed,
met
insectivorous
the
in
interested
men
Society
a
and
time
becoming
sole
forming
game
Governors
The
birds,
game
Time
Year's
a
native
of
both
in
several
our
Society
Protective
/Vpril, 1914,
month's
towards
step
of
of
a
Society had
in
objeet
protection
Board
Bird
to
invitation
the
protect
birds.
of
Hundreds
by
bulletin
gratifying.
ten
of
prompt
cents,
circulars
all
the
to
Applications
and
for
pouring
posted
were
members
was
in, accompanied
on
Active
very
with
dollars, representing
twenty-five
respectively, Junior, Associate,
and
copies
appeal
our
came
ten
two,
while
tributed
dis-
many
clubs.
response
one,
by mail,
sent
were
storekeepers,
local
boards
The
these
and
Life
Memberships
Patrons.
To
active
create
hundreds
plans,
"Twelve
Ways
Every
member
received
friends
and
bundles
Public
Library.
them
A
Help
a
;
the
storekeepers
were
hung
special printing
39
about
enclosed
about
on
the
heavy
titled,
en-
Greenwich."
distribute
to
servation
con-
distributed,
were
Birds
number
contemplated
our
circulars
of
to
neighbors
of
in
participation
their
among
them
Town
in
Hall
cardboard
ages;
packand
was
lyarge Weather
One
of the
Weather
Vane
Vane
Feeding
Feeding
Table
Tables
on
the
Propeity
Presented
by
of the
the
Greenwich
Society
to the
Water
Schools
Company
in Greenwich
straw
Quail
Shelter
and
Feeding
Stations
Put
42
Out
by
Bird
Warden
and
Boy
Scouts
Before
winter
birds
of
and
had
Society
arranged
holders,
suet
Weather
well
as
Prices
these
on
known
manufacturers.
he
subject,
to
known
concerns.
offer
to
display
these
their
ready
his
His
Society.
in
contribution
the
by
the
winter.
the
On
writer
of these
for
the
Nearly
with
food
from
the
stations
The
well
life to
this
community
feeding
great
at
is
a
bird
refuge
the
buckwheat
grain
at
is
birds.
Society
our
least
with
supplied
children.
school
tributed
dis-
also
were
eating
which
one
Besides
60
tained
sus-
were
grounds.
on
permitted
their
value
the
recognizing
large, has
stations
area
tions,
sta-
eight inches,
of
seed
Company,
Water
assisted
feeding
presented by
home
their
our
sists
con-
throughout
Society, at
ciety
So-
our
of
watershed
600
posted against trespassing,
patrolled by employees
made
weed
the
our
and
shelters
small
been
of
by
on
the
establish
easil_vbe
of
maintained
As
as
boxes
Greenwich
to
acres.
lunch
members
and
and
has
to
sunflower
warden,
eating
feeding table,
vane
the
by
of bird
school
every
protection
snowfall
a
larks
insectivorous
of
approval
buckwheat
after
Suet
stations.
weather
a
quail
meadow
bird
our
with
morning,
twelve
feeding
75
erected
well-
regular prices.
1914-15
supplied
Easter
saw
the
the
feeding
several
buckwheat,
hemp,
on
the
of bird
cause
in
agreed, however,
have
not
window.
and
of
well-
writer,
shown
boxes
products
has
the
to
of
winter
them
keeping
the
traps.
by
store
interest
bird
cat
the
by
his
nesting
do
below
Scouts,
Boy
in
prices
seed, etc., somewhat
During
add
which
his
the
MacArdle
Mr.
making
and
to
stock, laying
boxes
approached
in
devices
blue
asked
those
our
hoppers,
traps and
sparrow
devices
sale
decided
nesting
no
were
seed
and
wren
less than
when
soon
devices
English
MaCx\rdle,
readily agreed
Surprised by
counters,
north,
feeding
feeding tables,
lunch
as
sell
resident
our
farther
from,
us
and
vane
articles
B.
J.
visit
of
lives
the
manufacture
to
suspended
nesting boxes,
Mr.
that
those
kinds.
various
ice threatened
and
snow
the
of
the
to
Company,
\A'^ater
great benefit
of the
it
as
can
people
Greenwich.
Since
has
issue
January, 1915,
opened
contains
its
a
columns
column
the
to
Greenwich
the
devoted
43
Society.
to
News
and
Every
"Greenwich
Graphic
Tuesda\''s
Bird
Notes."
has
This
enabled
aims
the
of
others
stimulate
birds, by
house
the
in
of
their
opportunity
from
Chester
Port
clearing
a
Stamford
the
to
their
about
be
should
Notes"
to
attracting
of
recreation
personal experiments
Bird
gossip,
date.
to
this
of
profitable
"Greenwich
all bird
its successes
themselves
avail
describing
homes.
and
dents
resi-
of
thousands
before
bring
to
Society
our
should
Members
own
writer
the
line.
Aware
of
protectors
the
The
which
will
held
form
September
of
work
button
the
various
of
of
these
the
the
are
baths
Day
be
to
in the
interest
14
under
years)
are
which
around
robin
a
that
is
bird
of
from
houses,
found
Several
tenants.
Berlepsh type.
simple eight-room
a
have
been
erected
scattered
among
the
rooms,
tection
proboxes
2,000 nesting
over
coming
bird
systematic
of
correct
scientifically
be
to
are
of
year
a
finds
one
containing sixty
one
a
100
former
feeding
of
and
method
of
ens
; doz-
gardens
been
Survey
desirable
made
has
not
to
lessen
its
been
of
solved
no
their
from
our
no
the
progress.
44
native
our
Until
stand
of
Aside
cat
the
this
in the
number
twenty-five
dislike
as
the
birds.
nesting boxes, put up
effort by the Society
other
Society.
killed, and
who
findings regarding
lessening
sale of about
to
numbers.
will take
by
been
those
by
menace
taken
species, but
Society
problem
and
been
published
our
The
have
this
season.
have
sparrows
last winter,
operation
coming
destroyed
lessening
in
were
the
for
English
eggs
Starling nests
more
stations
likely increase
nests
many
no
of
results
await
Thousands
has
town
Society.
our
the
up
least
with
has
the
town.
At
for
Bird
stimulate
girls
picture
thirty-fivemartin
of bird
of the
the
bearing
kinds
Over
Greenwich.
in
on
the
secure
girls of
and
boys
to
and
(boys
Greenwich,
in
to
much
name
Summing
house
do
will
members
Junior
hundred
Bird
to
children
Exhibit
part of the
29th,
made
bird
the
are
Society.
our
given a
printed
the
to
open
to-day
being
are
4,000 school
of the
competitions
of
children
the
that
future, plans
co-operation
actual
of
fact
of the
portation,
im-
matter.
homeless
from
traps,
Biological
doubtful
we
the
have
cats
facture
manu-
made
Indi\idual
members
hundred.
two
particularlyrich
with
.\
is
be.
should
be
With
in this
their
into
view
to
attention.
daily trips
Judging
has
With
license
tion,
opera-
for
has
been
one
cats
similar
schools
or
colleges
hobbies
the
with
this fact
bring
has
been
exceptions, all
make
New
York
City.
in
one
wich
Green-
assistance
having
in
business
sional
profes-
or
of
MORROW
Members
cess
suc-
join
to
direction
NIEL
from
the
birds.
towns
in
they
in
past year
accomplished
retired
or
the
our
societies, the
as
lean
for
would
two
or
of
it
than
measuring
business
as
Communications
is smaller
protection
writer
of
places
reports
when
the
but
of
235
neighboring
Whatever
whose
local
a
about
better
fortunate
men
of
in
time.
general conditions
been
not
high
of
work,
their
from
favor
encourage
men.
to
the
for
conservation
by busy
in
is
which
traps
cat
two
year's
a
consideration
movement
a
in
membership
Doubtless,
of this
from
of 47
mately
approxi-
member,
one
had
of
total
a
daily.
stronger
taken
of
life,has
catch
present
should
done
bird
eliminated
estate
sentiment, however,
The
to
The
in
total
a
growing
us
have
bird
tection.
pro-
LADD.
Addressed
to
the President
"You
Greenwich
help
to
I have
know
Bird
make
Protective
to
stay.
The
is the
pair
fifteen
during
Society,
here
place
my
species lately noted
back
great appreciation of the work
a
a
bird
redheaded
here
are
years'
the
last
only
twice, while
them
as
brought
we
have
many
as
about
by
more
during
four
the
birds
first I have
THOMPSON
it has
year
sanctuary.
been
necessary
previous
times.
This
years
change,
fact, through the
than
in
Among
woodpecker.
the
with
aiming
am
I
hope
in
seen
its
the
it is
necticut
Con-
observation."
ERNEST
"In
and
of the
SETON.
to
spray
have
we
I
our
of your
previous years."
EDWARD
45
sprayed
believe, has
efforts
B.
CLOSE.
trees
been
Socict}-,
"Ovir
to
grounds
are
greater variety this
"The
the
but
"The
the
table
feeding
mulberry
used
not
great attraction
a
all
to
birds."
MARY
do
"I
feel that
for
the
the
winter
and
"From
infested
"I
have
but
have
I
reduction
our
trees.
felt
which,
sparrows,
their
the
never
birds
of
observations
my
effect
marked
increasing,
are
as
of
all
we
catch
poison
our
native
roosting places by playing
This
method
has
a
this
of
surroundings
effect
wholesome
very
although
make
impudence
it very
discouraging
all the
efforts
have
have
had
Our
the
number
no
of
with
success
has
helped
and
sparrows
and
the
present
the
is
bird
life
noticeably greater,
species.
While
this
both
most
of
all
have
I
cided
finally de-
best
minator.
exter-
work
situation
a
our
much.
very
all
systematic
commoner
46
J.
over
effort
FISHER.
'Cabinwood'
at
numbers
the
of
cats."
summer
in
sparrows
commendable
H.
"The
spite
is the
shotgun
Society
at
in
year,
filled practically
sparrows
traps
what
need
English
nestings
but
mediate
im-
our
this
increase
litter,and
question
greatest
against English
The
double-barreled
Greenwich
town.
with
little
small
is
work.
them.
upon
TUBBY.
B.
of the
tenacity
houses
reduced
a
"There
the
bird
very
that
and
the
on
after
little bird."
troublesome
certainly been
away,
them
ridding
in
W.
have
birds
hose
the
other
English
the
disturbed
and
nests
in their
the
in
fluence
its inin
have,
and
drive
know,
their
destroyed
birds
"
both
making
which
insects
willing to
is
presence
dark
"Our
life
bird
our
upon
ciety
So-
Bird
Greenwich
the
which
HOYT.
W.
months.
summer
felt in
years,
work
the
doing is having a
variety and number
is
of
winter,
all.
at
been
have
trees
much
a
last
constantly emptied
were
was
been
has
last.
than
summer
holders
suet
little information
have
we
birds, although there
the
give regarding
that
small
so
of
has
individuals
birds
as
nested
been
well
as
here,
scarlet
Baltimore
tanagers,
orioles
and
bluebirds
ally
unusu-
were
abundant.
"What,
notice
our
natural
this
basin
"On
summer
in
was
goldfinches
others
man}'
visited
bird
pool,
the
house.
by
and
tanagers
made
from
the
with
noted,
in
pool
birds
the
a
bluebirds
four
filled
bluebirds
seven
to
the
rows
spar-
probability
that
of
but
absence.
our
were
but
seen,
the
nest
located.
one
"Phoebes
built
under
the
lepsch
houses,
their
numlier
of
located
six
much
eggs
yards
the
as
"."-^cotch
in
in
noisy
all of
further
the
A
ance
annoy-
boxes
as
boxes
are
ones
will
new
work
fi\e
sevent\'
stopped
was
and
it.
favorite
chipping
containing
nest
within
deserted
be
to
and
.about
and
time
alarm
possession
mowing
birds
seem
of
places
to
sparrows
for
catbirds,
Che
nest.
winks
Japanese barberry.
snake
".\
while
the
found,
the
lessen
usual.
Although
pines
the
ground,
than
found
goldfinches, robins
nested
the
vented
pre-
ordered
been
ha\'e
unusually, abundant.
been
house.
left
nest
of
feet
was
the
of
boxes
a
them.
left, especially when
has
higher
"(Juail haxe
eleven
brood
of
which
spring,
using
take
often
P)er-
occupied
by scjuirrels.T(j
damaged
first
within
placed
be
the
from
them
for
pns^es^i(Jn
the
in
early
others
and
field mice, which
as
bluebirds
Berlepsch nesting
those
from
soon
and
Berlepsch boxes,
"Additional
placed
shehes
on
flying st|uirrclstook
woodpeckers
replace
nests
Nuthatches
eaxes.
"Unfortunately,
to
close
time
were
humming
"Many
new
prominently
more
phoebes, bluebirds, bluejays, chipping
Robins,
and
birds
scarlet
two
Another
together.
pool.
our
rock
gjeat
a
occasion
one
bathed
the
perhaps, brought
devour
to
Our
killed.
attention
given b}' the parent
"A
starling
"A
cat
killed
a
catbirds
nesting
bluebird
ered
discov-
was
attracted
was
by
the
birds.
on
her
nest
in
a
Berlejjsch
box.
trap like the
forty-five cats
life to
our
up
crusade
to
one
date.
made
by
our
attribute
We
against bird-hunting
47
.Societyhas
the
cats.
caught
increasing
bird
Bird
Feeding
Pool
on
Devices
Mr.
on
Raymond
Mr.
B.
Raymond
48
Thompson's
B.
Estate
Thompson's
Estate
offer
they
to
bird
here
for
Society
your
ha\ing
they
years,
farms
of these
use
Birds
sanctuary.
several
the
are
again
return
to
sure
protected
and
fed
been
tional
addi-
an
as
next
winter.
"Chipping
Nuthatches,
have
sparrows
bluebirds, American
than
at
and
time
any
and
have
nighthawks
during
nine
ray
been
the
praises
value
to
"I
of
years' stay."
COUSTON.
glad
that
when
that
we
mourned
brother
that
shot
braved
trouble
the
the
Robins
all the
"My
the
scattered
this
have
winter
All
feed
not
showed.
six, I
that
mj'
catbird
the
winter
there
under
the
'pauperized'
the
50
and
upright
an
woodpeckers
for
bush
a
eight
years.
honeysuckle,
flickers,jays chipping
and
allows
windows.
open
in
homelike,
sparrow.
in half
bird
my
in
nor
is suet
south
on
common
English
birds,
molests
of
suet
my
chickadees
downey
terrace,
everything
During
of
summer,
covered
rose
starlings
perch.
and
a
the
ate
strip
suet
first
presentiment
starlings
family
porches,
except
never
nificantl
sig-
of
age
the
a
protect
not
winter
us,
the
to
fed
had
I
special
a
same
wrens,
acre,
cat
place.
the
think), I
I had
starlings could
sparrows,
over
I
for
birds,
in the
sparrows
our
more
"
pidgeon,
passenger
though
that
in both
nest
a
made
Indiana.
winter,
with
lived
of
body
one
the
at
to
long
though
we
sad
a
when
know,
(in 1905,
Riverside
"In
is
had
Burroughs
John
wherever
recollection
by hanging
where
song
in
bites
woodpeckers
have
dead
native
enormous
limb
special
has
society
no
houses
I could
the
for
that
girl in Minnesota,
wren
earliest
Greenwich
"In
such
singing
of
nothing
preservation.
young
built
the
had
a
was
My
over
bird
in
had
sad
that
those
of
ranks
have
I
feel, however,
to
I
homes.
own
the
join
to
protection, and
interest'
my
before
bird
late
say.
am
'rouse
did
it is too
suppose
evidence
in
more
chard
or-
while
common,
ALEX.
"I
orioles,
were
wrens
ers,
flick-
(various),
Baltimore
goldfinches,
orioles, scarlet tanagers
plentiful.
more
warblers, woodpeckers
creepers,
whip-poor-wills
been
never
a
another
dozen
winter
on
places, and
Seven
neighbors,
cat
of
seasons
as
the
eighth
(1914-'15),hardly
a
bird
downeys
except
spring they
reach
returned
of the
Hillacre
in
fresh
has
to
came
force
to
filled bath
reached
high
lunch
safe
nesting
and
tubs,
AXN
How
We
Four
years
birds,
winter
had
This
impression
that
about
home
one's
the
bird
writer
A
may
be
at
nests
least
Bird
house,
lawns
ten
and
With
Society
Seven
within
the
Starlings
in
and
in
to
plished
accom-
finding
but
contained
summer
which
but
four
have
few
downey
put
were
boxes,
of
with
species
increased
; the
up
purchased
N.
Meriden,
to
sults
re-
the
The
made
was
best
from
H.
tin
mar-
li\- lacobs
Pa., which
consist
se^"en
the
shrubs,
of
available
the
of
eliminated.
The
writer
the
an}'
kind.
stems
Berlepsch.
the
of
area
cropped
sites, the
Von
cat
cat
of
closeh'
nest
Baron
suggested by
very
and
trees
tangled growth
exception
were
gave
boxes
increase
trap
household,
manufactured
satisfactory service.
English
years,
English
a
nests,
thick
least
at
To
past four
boxes, but
time
has
he
is that
compartments,
lacks
thousand
and
flickers
recollection
planted
notable
felines
this
W'aynesburge,
tied, as
the
all stray
the
acres,
were
cation,
va-
summer
procurable.
well
grass.
shrubs
which
Company
consideration
the
them
effort.
other
resulted
ago
e
general
a'
similarl}'placed.
those
Berlepsch
twenty
best
Although
Of
from
of
the
what
tweh
Company,
considers
of
nesting
House
one
House
under
of
types
had
Audubon
usual
the
in
constant
therefore,
area
in the
and
the
mon
com-
birds
this year.
species
were
and
the
attracting
devote
}ears
same
and
study
of
correct
to
to
four
the
on
Several
Bird
interest
seventy-five. My
twenty
by
of
to
able
been
not
summary,
represented
were
of
has
search
Diligent
of
years
Mia''
fed
or
study
Sundays, holidays
stud}-.
twelve
calls for
from
bird
in
boxes
is written
introduction
success
"Casa
to
identify few
nesting
up
of
population
BURSCH.
DENMS
could
writer
put
ne\er
time.
Aside
the
ago
easy
summer."
this
the Birds
Brought
the
within
sites
bird
the
mark
water
in
table; but
my
sparrows
traps
accounting
have
sparrows
instances
a
few
woodpeckers.
51
have
been
occupied
been
for
kept
at
destroyed
least
from
cavities
6,000.
nesting
by
made
These
Chipping
Sparrow
y:!P'-.MCt4^i'g^--
Nefetlings
Xuie"A"
-
"-'
52
were
Killed
by
a
Cat
The
following- Ivventy-one
during
young
Purple
chimney
the
and
reared
their
just past:
summer
martin,
nested
species
swallow,
tree
swift, robin,
Baltimore
flicker, bluebird,
oriole, orchard
wren,
oriole,
bird,
cat-
ern
purple grackle, yellow warbler, brown
thrasher, Northyellow throat, bobolink, meadowlark,
chipping sparrow,
and
gold finch, English sparrow
sparrow,
starling.
song
Immediately
outside
bird, redwinged
the
land
under
blackbird, downey
discussion
the
and
woodpecker
king
pewee
nested.
The
only
nest
to
destroyed by
was
reared
the
on
For
The
shelf
lunch
nuthatches,
song
visited
took
seed
No
been
planting
done
fruit
will
The
be
set
than
when
of
exposed
placed
are
in
chicadees.
be
and
one-fourth
the
complete
This
brief
and
woods
the
emphasize
area,
the
neighbors
birds
nearly
with
quently
fre-
Chicadees
shelf.
the
thirty
birds
has
evergreens
selected
writer
are
about
for
to
what
open
how
that
birds
sun,
more
intends
tree
their
view
of
in
this
can
53
eight
but
feet
not
use
hole
a
as
will
tion
invita-
an
be accomplished
from
that
none
which
discover
of
his
Morrow
in
a
draw
to
a
tected
pro-
ate
immedi-
delightful pastime
Niel
home.
try the
suit themselves.
country
add
readily
trees,
diameter
quickly they
would
cupy
oc-
attracting downy
latter's
in
will
to
trunks
growing
the
inches
engaged
the
a
full
He
to
For
shows
account
To
have
for
over
trees.
excavation
localitylacking
birds.
breasted
table.
shelter
shrubs
close
by them,
and
to
white
window
conclusion
to
on
situations
shaded
one
the
to
woodpeckers
bored
the
placing partly decayed
ground
completely
at
about
come
posts
they
experiment
above
has
or
hand
200
window
same
sparrows
feeding
August
15th.
starlings,juncos.
\'ane
and
visited
out.
writer
boxes
later
the
sparrows,
food
This
now.
and
the
furnish
to
until
planted
were
from
visited
throated
weather
was
bird
March
to
woodpeckers,
white
and
our
sunflower
also
tree
cowbird
mocking
a
January
downey
finches
Purple
cowbird
a
sparrows.
1913,
ha^"e
sparrows,
albino
an
song
from
counter
Chickadees,
of
and
following species
:
1914
pair
a
1912
winters,
window
our
of
summer
place by
two
contained
cat.
a
the
During
that
knowledge
my
of
tracting
at-
Ladd.
Greenwich
Bird
Day
September 29, 1915
this
As
of
Year
Book
number
a
to
the
given
Bird
for
program
The
Fairhope
of
cause
that
day
and
protection
been
has
arranged
Bird
the
4:00
P. M.
grounds
Lecture
"
"How
Home."
To
followed
with
Moving
Pictures
P. M.
Court
view
both
a
At
given the
'
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bird
will be
will be
of
working
The
to
seen
of
part
120
to
of
made
by
the
to
and
Bird
will be
a
a
the
the
"Court
boys and
prizes offered
54
from
success
which
pertains
of
and
Prices
comprise
women
Day
will
reception
by Refreshments
Evening
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interest
generous
"Sanctuary"
followed
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protection
' '
ers."
Hunt-
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in the afternoon.
as
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Upwards
of "The
Pictures
conclusion
ning
eve-
of which
pages.
"Sanctuary,"
the
and
description
other
on
'Guests of Honor,
committees
of the Birds
afternoon
full
Moving
"
"
Hunters."
is given
8:15
the
Slides.
"
P. M."
about
Birds
Lantern
The
8:00
titled
en-
with
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On
the
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Illustrated
be
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the
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elaborate
following
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interest
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For
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awaken
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ances
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of
view
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of copies to those
on
with
being prepared
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is
girls of the
in the
several
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Birds."
Ball.
$3
the
more
be
point.
view-
larly
particuGreat
town,
competitions.
fort
efas
THE
One
of
houses,
others
their
A
the
winter
bird
collection
of
of
bird
of
and
will be
circulars
objects
interest, such
of
English
lantern
Protective
free
be
the
life
exhibit
of
histories
and
traps
sparrow
of
cat
bird
insect
and
traps,
the
to
illustratingthe
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Society.
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nests,
and
attract
also
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sale
on
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as
add
will
baths,
distribution
subject will be
etc., will
Day
slides
telling how
for
to
Bird
BIRDS.
lovers.
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pertaining
THE
feeding, bird
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OF
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implements
work
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chief
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and
pests
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COURT
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regular prices.
at
educational
protect
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which
value
of
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"The
other
Many
like,photographs,
Court
of
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Birds."
The
exhibit
Committee
arranging
competitions
Class
1.
Adult
Class
2.
Junior
entries
contestant
this
be
be
the
work
attached
the
of
each
to
competitions
all
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open
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old.
vears
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Entries
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3.
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by
to
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nature,
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attractiveness
artistic value.
priie, $2.50. Third
prize, $5.00. Second
First
Bird
"Wild
prize, Baynes'
Guests."
Lot
Collection
sizes
They
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may
bronzes
posters,
must
Paintings, Posters,
Drawings,
1.
drawings,
9
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connection
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:
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is also
feeding
photographs
of
"
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contain
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ing
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must
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or
or
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phase
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life, such
as
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nests
perching,
or
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baths.
3.
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more
in any
than
one
two
photographs
of
collection.
SS
birds'
nests
or
bird
houses
should
collection
Any
include
may
especiallyattractive
Each
photograph
localityand
First
be
must
other
any
endorsed
data
prize, $5.00. Second
Class
This
class
is open
photograph
one
2.
plant, shrub
a
tree
or
with
adding
the
interest
of
name
subject,
the
value.
or
prize, $2.50
Junior Competitions.
"
boys and
to
of
birds.
to
girls under
eighteen
years.
Compositions.
1.
Each
the
bird
life
or
history
of
group
(a)
Weed
(c)
Each
3.
Each
4.
Each
original record
an
habits
the
to
eating birds, such
emphasize
personal
dove,
as
observation
individual
an
economic
:
finch
sparrow,
owl, hawk
as
the
of
following divisions
thrush, swallow,
as
destroying, such
must
of
characteristics
and
belonging
eating, such
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be
and
birds
seed
(b) Insect
2.
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composition
of
5.
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or
value
of
the
division
composition
the
will
be
of
not
be
must
judged
by the
and
prize, $5.00. Second
1.
Any
2.
They
must
3.
Each
must
number
Directions
of
houses
be the
Bird
"
be
name,
age
and
address
bird
(a) originality, (b)
:
interest
description, (d)
of
ity.
subject, (e) literaryqualprize, $2.00.
Houses.
submitted.
the
of
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house.
be
judged
will
workmanship,
exhibitor, from
which
kind
It is understood
shall
become
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location
of
his
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it is
original designs.
intended,
such
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them
attachment
following points:
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property
up
proper
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must
use
Attractiveness,
birds' needs.
suitability
Second
and
the
on
to
prize, $5.00.
prize,$1.00.
seen
the
with
may
suitable
to
as
First
which
2.
work
clearness
prize, $3.00. Third
specify for
accompany
Houses
from
more
by the
500 words.
than
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wren,
5.
nor
following points
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sympathy
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words
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'iSTilS
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Essays
quail ;
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lected.
of
lark;
or
woodpecker
that
of
the
throughout
highroads.
56
all bird
Greenwich
the
prize, $2.00. Fourth
houses
Bird
entered
in
petition
com-
Protective
township where
they
can
ciety,
Sobe
Birds
Observed
at
Greenwich, Conn.
*Goldfinch
Pine
Myrtle Warbler
Siskin
*Ve?ner
I-'^wich
tGrasshopper
Sparrow
Sparrow
*Oven
Junco
Swamp
Sparrow
Sparrow
Palm
Thrush
(dead
*Rose-breasted
*Indio'o
Bunting
*Scarlet
Tanager
*Purple
Martin
Water
"Maryland
Yellowthroat
body)
Wilson's
Grosbeak
Canadian
Warbler
Warbler
"Redstart
Bird
Mocking
"Catbird
"Brown
Thrush
*Barn
Swallow
"House
Wren
Tree
Swallow
(reported nesting)
Swallow
Swallow
*Red-eyed
Vireo
*Warbling
Vireo
and
Golden-crowned
Vireo
Worm-eating
Ruby-crowned
"Wood
Northern
"Yellow
Olive-backed
Warbler
Hermit
Warbler
Parula
Kinglet
Thrush
Thrush
Thrush
"Robin
Warbler
"Bluebird
Total, 160
Warbler
Black-throated
Kinglet
Thrush
Gra--cheeked
Warbler
*Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee
Nuthatch
"Veery
Vireo
White
Nuthatch
"Chickadee
Vireo
*White-eyed
Wren
i^reeper
Red-breasted
*Yellow-throated
Black
Brown
Shrike
Blue-headed
Wren
"White-breasted
Waxwing
Northern
Winter
tLong-billed Marsh
fRough-winged
tCedar
Chat
Warbler
*Cliff Swallow
fBank
Thruih
"Louisiana
"Hooded
Cardinal
Warbler
"Yellow-breasted
*Towhee
Warbler
Bird
Water
Sparrow
Green
Warbler
Yellow
Sparrow
*Song
k-lhroated
Bl
Pine
Slate-colored
Warbler
Blackburnian
Sparrow
*Field
Warbler
Black-poll Warbler
Sparrow
White-throated
Fox
Bay-breasted
Sparrow
*Chipping
Warbler
*Chfc-.tnut-sided
Sparrow
tSeaside
Warbler
Magnolia
Siarrow
Tree
Continued
"
Blue
Warbler
SS
species.
Report
Treasurer's
$336
dues
Annual
Life
members
and
Sale
of
Sale
of tickets
485.00
patrons
feeding dc\'ices,nesting boxes,
for
90
.
359.23
etc.
172.60
lecture.
...
received
Subscriptions
warden's
for
salar}'
120.00
$1,473.7.^
stationery,circulars
Postage,
Warden's
salary
One-third
cost
Material
and
Incorporating
Balance
389.
50
13
19. U)
Members
winter
24.00
feeding
93.40
lectures
two
332.02
bank
71
due
Amounts
12
.
for
in
feeding devices,
for
fee
for
Expenses
33.33
etc
Junior
Grain, etc.,
283.00
horse
labor
nesting boxes,
for
$215.10
leaflets.
of horse
and
Buttons
and
10
.
,^1,473.73
E.
WOOD,
A.
Treasurer.
Sept. 15, 1915.
No
the
to
winter
The
game
be
schools,
of
weathervane
devices
or
used
feeding
by
bird
our
tables
sented
pre-
warden
for
feeding.
About
to
is taken
account
worth
$100
following
used
birds
Messrs.
wholly
of
comp'eted
gentlemen
for
have
protecting
contributed
and
unsold
remain
devices
to
feeding
a
special fund
quail
and
other
:
Roger
Baldwin
John
W.
D.
Baldwin
C.
R.
C.
John
N.
Chapman
K.
C.
A.
I,. Dommerich
Henry
Converse
Lanier
D.
Niel
Boiling
French
Tyler
L.
Redfield
Percy
A.
Rockefeller
William
Raymond
J. Fisher
59
Ladd
Morrow
Rockefeller
G.
B.
Thompson
CONSTITUTION
BY-LAWS
AND
THE
OF
Greenwich
Society
Protective
Bird
(Incorporated)
ARTICLE
I.
Name.
The
Bird
of
name
Protective
the
shall
organization
Greenwich
The
be
Society, Incorporated.
ARTICLE
II.
Objects.
The
objects
of
of
bird
in
Society shall
this
native
our
interest
model
of
and
game
bird
be
the
birds,
non-game
life, and
the
and
increase
tection
pro-
tion
stimula-
the
of
establishment
gradual
a
sanctuary.
ARTICLE
III.
Membership.
Section
of
L
Associate
Life
Members,
this
and
Any
3.
Active
an
Section
a
4.
Junior
prescribed
Section
Society
upon
by the
5.
payment
Executive
this
payment
child
under
of
of
the
a
the
town
Society
of the
Society
the
not,
or
of
Greenwich
on
election
prescribed
of
the
on
come
be-
may
prescribed
years
of
objects
dues.
may
by
the
dues.
age
payment
may
of
Members.
in
person
town
fourteen
this
Junior
become
may
the
the
and
for
Any
of
of
Member
dues
of
by paying
Member
Any
consist
Members,
Junior
with
sympathy
resident
resident
Committee
Executive
become
Any
shall
Society
Members,
in
Member
Associate
Section
become
a
this
Benefactors.
person
Society, whether
an
this
Active
Patrons
2.
of
membership
Members,
Section
the
The
Life
Member,
prescribed
Committee.
60
with
sympathy
fee
the
Patron,
and
upon
objects of
or
factor
Beneelection
Section
One
6.
Dollar,
shall
of
be
Two
time.
shall be
The
dues
of
a
of
a
be
The
of
dues
Dollars, payable
Benefactor
be
shall
shall
of
a
The
time.
one
Dollars,
Member
Junior
at
fee
The
be
ber
Mem-
Active
an
annually.
Twenty-five
shall
Member
Associate
an
payable
Ten
shall
fee
The
of
Dollars,
Patron
a
dues
payable annually.
T"ife Member
fee
The
payable
at
one
Fi\-e Hundred
lars.
Dol-
be
able
pay-
Ten
Cents,
annually.
7.
.Section
Life
Members,
Section
the
upon
of
shall
power
and
Patrons
member
A
written
be
may
members
of
of
the
therefor,
be
presented
Committee
Such
member
heard
by
ha\e
shall
the
least
at
and
to
the
ecutive
Ex-
the
to
the
before
privilege
ent
pres-
action, with
such
week
jority
ma-
Committee
member
the
one
the
of
Society
the
officer,by
any
Executive
to
Active
to
the
from
expelled
recommendation
the
limited
be
Benefactors.
meeting, pro^'ided notice
any
reasons
voting
Members,
8.
vote
at
The
meeting.
and
appear
be
to
Committee.
Executive
IV
ARTICLE
Government.
I.
Section
of
divided
the
of
Board
a
into
three
of the
be
shall
terms
groups
and
(3)
three
of
groups
Annual
each
shall
Members
given
for
elected
be
of
all Active
by
due
be
two
one,
Meeting
present,
to
shall
Governors
respectively
but
the
who
in
of
one
three
Society,
ballot
of
the
notice
of
such
the
At
year.
the
their
and
ors
Govern-
ganization
Or-
the
and
terms
shall
terms
Thereafter,
years.
(7)
seven
have
Governors'
(7)
that
so
persons,
shall
of
Governors,
fixed,
or
office
seven
any
sist
con-
affairs, funds
the
of
only
Board
the
of
of
tenure
limitation
expire by
can
years,
(21)
(7) each,
control
shall
Society
twenty-one
seven
The
Society-
Meeting
be
of
general management
property
of
(iovernors
this
of
governing body
The
majority
meeting
ors
Govern-
new
of
at
the
Active
having
been
Members.
Y
ARTICLE
Amendments.
Amendments
made
by
a
or
two-thirds
alterations
vote
of
61
to
the
the
Constitution
Active
Members
may
at
be
any
Annual
Special Meeting,
or
provided
proxy,
have
been
furnished
days
before
them
; and
the
the
notice
the
to
Meeting
the
the
to
written
in
proposed
the
of
which
shall
Members
the
cause
least
at
consider
to
uted
distrib-
be
to
same
before
(7) days
seven
(15)
fifteen
proposed
it is
shall
change
least
at
written
by
or
person
Secretary
at
Secretary
Active
either
Meeting.
ARTICLE
VI.
By-Laws.
The
amend
Board
the
of
Governors
By-Laws
of
have
shall
the
and
make
to
power
Society.
ARTICLE
I.
Members.
Every
Junior
be
Member
their
to
shall
proposed by
of the
Society
personally sign
of
names
All
but
six
adverse
each
of
a
shall
votes
by
At
of the
and
one
week
one
shall
receive
must
be
the
Board
or
must
ber
mem-
before
forwarded
afifirmati\'c
of Governors,
candidate.
reject any
ARTICLE
least
at
least
applicant
quorum
Associate
than
application
an
seconded
applicants
of five-sevenths
votes
and
good standing.
in
Secretary.
other
membership
member
a
election, the
the
for
applicant
II.
Officers.
1.
Section
Annual
Treasurer,
General
Section
consist
of
2.
Section
Annual
be
Board
five
and
its
at
a
jority
ma-
Secretary,
a
persons
as
of
a
a
tee
Commit-
the
shall
for
the
4.
At
Meeting
balance
the
of
the
of
and
Board
be
the
Governors'
Society,
62
Committee,
three
to
Governors,
Governors.
regular meeting,
or
Executive
an
Manager
in
Committee
special
serve
the
Vacancies
3.
Executive
shall
shall
President, General
a
Section
any
and
elect
ballot
by
Vice-Presidents,
Manager,
There
appointed by
be
the
shall
members,
own
four
President,
a
a
its
Governors
of
Membership.
on
to
from
Meeting,
vote,
Board
The
of
filled
and
Governors
the
person
unexpired
Meeting
the
Governors
the
by
so
in
"at
elected
term.
next
Governors
or
preceding
shall
the
appoint
three
who
(3) members,
be
voted
of
Governors
When
the
at
upon
in
the
nominated
shall
in
their
out
the
committees
and
the
deem
be
membership
committee
to
their
shall
of
The
be
Executive
the
similar
in
of
Chairman
the
from
shall be
such
societies.
The
of
Board
the
shall
Vice-Presidents
The
his
in
President,
of the
Governors,
eral
gen-
as
pertain
President
Governors
and
the
duties
Committee.
2.
Section
such
of
Officers.
Officers
of
offices
officio
ex
carrying
each
III.
of
duties
respective
they,
as
of
taken
the
Society.
Duties
1.
of
Board
be
may
ten
have
for
proper
the
on
ARTICLE
Section
than
shall
chairman
The
member
the
of
not
paper
news-
one
less
Meeting.
and
necessary
a
least
at
a
Society,
special committees
or
Society.
of the
balance
x-Vnnual
such
of the
Committee
standing
of this
shall
the
of
in
expire.
selected
ireenwich,
Executive
judgment,
objects
(
shall
Secretary
to
Board
the
on
have
printed
of
date
such
appoint
to
Town
The
the
be
to
serve
condidates
terms
shall
to
same
same
the
S.
Section
the
to
whose
those
of
Hst
a
Meeting,
of
in the
before
(10) days
present
committee
the
cause
published
power
Annual
place
list,it shall deliver
who
shall
in
absence,
perform
of
order
the
seniority
in
office.
the
in
Committee,
of
record
; shall
and
of all
Society,
such
names
and
send
all matters
and
and
keep
form
in-
; shall
their
and
names
a
Officers
requiring
the
Treasurer
shall receive
in
deposit them
depositoriesas
; shall
publications;
meetings
of
Treasurer
The
shall
and
Governors
of all
the
its
Society,
notice
Officers
to
of
have
shall
dresses
ad-
members.
new
4.
Section
give
send
shall
the
of
Executive
its
purpose;
and
Members,
shall inform
Governors
and
Society
the
correspondence
the
election
attention,
of
that
for
of
proceedings
and
Governors
kept
be
to
the
record
shall
of
Board
its
books
thereof;
their
Secretary
records
the
conduct
shall
of
of
Societv,
charge
The
3.
Section
to
addresses
shall
the
be
of the
name
the
approved by
Secretary,
of all
the
at
members
new
63
all moneys
least
once
who
Society
Board
a
have
of the
in
of Governors
month,
paid
the
their
dues
; shall
of the
statement
a
shall
submit
Annual
of
Board
the
the
funds
of
the
shall
He
Society.
sign
the
at
and
all checks
the
of
direction
the
under
Society
Members
the
to
and
Society,
of the
condition
statement
tee,
Commit-
Executive
the
of
request
financial
financial
a
Meeting
disburse
the
furnish, at
of Governors.
Section
S.
of
oversight
The
all the
planned by
the
Article
II
indicated
as
in
ARTICLE
general
have
shall
Manager
activities
its work
on
General
for
Society
rying
car-
tion.
Constitu-
of the
IV.
Meetings.
Section
the
on
of
of
the
Section
mailed
such
2.
three
the
newspaper
of
(10) days prior
ten
Annual
the
than
less
not
in his
such
a
to
shall
Meeting
be
(10) days prior
ten
to
(9)
by
shall
as
the
be
the
by
on
Executive
the
of
President
written
a
called
be
may
at
the
time
any
Society, by
application signed by
Committee,
fifteen
by
or
Society.
members
shall
constitute
a
quorum
Society.
may
the
of
be
Committee
Executive
appointed by
Secretary,
and
Three
given.
the
President,
(2) days'
two
(3)
be
may
members
notice
shall
or
of
stitute
con-
quorum.
Section
such
his absence
of
Meetings
times
meeting
or
of the
of the
5.
absence
at
notice
Nine
4.
meeting
at
special meeting
Members
Section
Five
A
members
Active
t any
held
date
the
regular meetings
published in the
such
than
day
Tues-
Meeting.
member
Manager,
Section
each
less
notice
(3) days'
(3)
(IS)
held
A
3.
General
three
a
not
shall be
August
of
last
the
on
ciety
So-
meeting.
Section
on
one
Annual
each
to
least
and
Greenwich,
date
the
at
of
Notice
Meeting.
and
February
the
of
regular meeting
a
Tuesday
last
in
be
of
Tuesday
published
of
shall
The
Annual
shall be
town
last
August.
the
of
There
1.
6.
Meetings
times
by
the
(S) members
as
may
of the
be
of Governors
appointed by
and
Secretary,
constitute
Board
a
64
upon
quorum.
two
the
may
President,
(2) days'
be
in
notice.
Mimbers
of the Greenwich
Active
Bird Protective
Members"
Society
"
Continued
Holden, Mrs. D. J.
Houghton, A. S.
Poucher, Frank
Hubbell, Jr.,Geo. W.
Reynolds, Mrs.
Huyler,
Ritch, Mrs.
Coulter
Kelly, E. J., New
Ladd,
Mrs.
York
Niel
Leary,
Miss
Lyons,
W.
Rosenfeld, George
W.
H.
Maples, James
C,
A'laples,Miss
Moore,
E.
Mrs.
Scoti,
W.
W.
Sewell.
C.
Chester
Twatchtman,
Temple,
Talbot, William
C.
William
W.
Tubby,
Thorp, Frank
Palmer, George B.
Thorp, Mrs.
Palmer, F. T.
Wills, E. C.
Pell, R. J.
Wertheim,
C. T.
Pouch,
Mrs.
Mrs.
Babst, E. D.
Henry
Banks, Miss
Jessie
Dommerich,
Bemis, Mrs.
E. T.
Dominick,
Mary
A.
Carson,
Carter, Charles
E.
Frank
Kisco, N.
Chapman,
John
Chapman,
John
D.
Y.
D.
Ida
Mary
John
W.
H.
Frank, New
Keen, Frank
York
H.
Mead, Charle-
Dell, Miss
Newton,
66
City
L.
Dr. F. C.
Ccuston, Alex.
Beatrice
A.
York
C.
Hoyt, Mrs.
Hyde,
New
S. F.
Hoyt, Miss
Hubbard,
H.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Hoyt, Miss
M.
K.,
MacLean
Hoggson,
W.,
Mt.
Rev.
Alonzo
Members.
Dunton,
Butler, Mrs.
Maurice
Clara
Zabriskie, Mrs.
Associate
Bouchelle, Miss
Frank
Wright, Miss
E. D.
H.
R.
B.
Nutting, A. J.
Pierce, Mrs.
B.
Alden
Newell, E. R.
Morton
G.
Tuttle, F. B.
M.
Morris, E. W
Nichols,
W.
Henry
F. St. George
Thompson,
Raymond
S.
Todd, Arthur
S.
A.
Eugene
D.
Thompson
Sutton, Thonias
Bertha
Richard
Janet
E.
B.
Squier, W.
T.
Hubbell
Grace
Mrs.
Mrs.
Smith,
J. B.
Montgomery,
Rowland,
Shoemaker,
W.
Miller, Miss
Monks,
Y.
E.
Edgar
George
Seton, Ernest
Portchester, N.
Mead,
\.
C,
Anna
Marble, Mrs.
Rowland,
Ruutz-Rees,
Portchester, N.
McArdle,
T.
Rockefeller, William
Macy, Nelson
Marble, W.
L.
John
Wm.
Rockefeller, Godfrey
J.
F.
Maddison,
C.
Veaux
Robert, E. E.
City
Morrow
Marie
De
Powel,
D.
Continued
Mrs.
N.
Charles
P.
City
Members
of Greenwich
Bird
Associate
Norlhrop,
Mrs.
George
Pynchon,
Mrs.
Richardson,
Rowland,
George
Stokes, I. N.
M.
L.
George
Jr., Miss
Adams,
Jr., Miss
Helen
Adams,
Jr., Miss
L. L.
Adams,
Jr., Miss
C.
R.
Child, Miss
Harriet
Child, Miss
Elizabeth
Jr., Miss
Domminick,
Jr., Miss
DuBois,
Master
DuBois,
Miss
DuBois,
Miss
DuBois,
Miss
John
Marion
P.
F.
D.
S.
Dorothy
G.
Nancy
Hooker,
Miss
Barbara
Hooker,
^liss
Adelaide
Hooker,
Miss
Helen
Miss
Margaret
Samuel
Lydia
Miss
Marble,
2nd, Master
Palmer,
Aliss Florence
Pouch,
x-Vntoinette
Lucy W.
3rd, Master
George
Domminick,
Quackenbush,
Master
Miss
Rockefeller,
Miss
Rockefeller, Master
Stillman
Master
Elizabeth
Rosenfeld, Miss
Edwards,
Miss
Susan
Sargent, Miss
Edwards,
Miss
Margaret
Slawson,
Edwards,
Jr., Master
Miss
Isabelle
Gallaway,
Miss
Marion
Sallie
IMiss Mary
Hartley, R. Wakeman
Miss
St. John,
Miss
St. John,
Miss
G. Clarke
Orson
Louise
Margaret
Helen
Talbot, blaster
Young
Miss
H.
Jean
Master
Stokes, Miss
Roland
Marjorie
St. John, Master
Harkness,
Hooker,
Almira
Sterling
Miss
Gallaway,
Gilbert
Elizabeth
Rockefeller, Master
Ruutz-Rees,
Duncan
K.
Virginia
Quackenbush,
Miss
Richardson,
E.
W.
A.
Mary
Miss
Edwards,
Gibson, Miss
Mass.
Members.
Look,
Carter
Domminick,
Harrington,
Emily G.
Miss
Look, Master
T.
R.
Susan
Huyler,
M.
Adele
Boiling, )iliss Anna
Boiling, Master
Mary
Talbot, iliss
Huyler, Master
Mary
Bettie
Brookfield, Miss
Talbot, Miss
Walsh,
Adams,
Miss
S. C.
Great
Phelps
C.
Phelps Stokes
I. N.
Talbot, Mrs.
W.
Junior
Anderson,
Continued
Ticknor, Caleb,
Henry
Mrs.
"
Stokes, Mrs.
M.
Albert
Mrs.
Shoemaker,
Members
Elizabeth
Pynchon,
Society" Continued
Protective
John
Josephine
B. F.
3I" iHpttinrtum
Be^mom
Mtob
Jatitfa MtdinUifson
^vibe
(Stjarkaol. Wtlla
Hangf lottj
67
^
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made
3.50
painted, practical
Trap,
Holder,
.
,
Trap, well-made,
Sparrow
.50
stained
of
half -inch
bottom,
4"00
galvanized
half-inch
.25
wire-cloth
.
Seed
Self-feeding
Hopper,
well-made,
ed
paint1.00
Feeding
Vane
Weather
painted,
made,
Lunch
Suspended
and
holder
with
Prices
All
nesting
boxes
McArdle,
sent
direct
the
to
of No.
and
by
the
other
florist, on
him
8
Net
are
made
articles
Counter,
hopper,
seed
feet
50
Table, practical, well8-foot pole
with
will be
contains
.
4.00
suet
strongly made,
galvanized
2.50
wire
CarriageExtra
Society,
as
devices,
can
Greenwich
promptly
68
well
be
as
seen
Avenue.
filled.
Berlepsch
at
J. B.
Orders