. How to attract and protect wild birds . Fig. 5. ONE-YEAR-OLD WHORLS RECENTLY PRUNED. or six paces, and their numerous sprouts are lopped at varyingheights—J, 1, IJ, and 2 yards above the ground {see Figs. 3 and 4). 61They should be cut close above the dormant eyes, so that the newgrowth forms whorl-shaped ramifications, which serve the birds as afoundation for their nests. These whorl-shaped sprouts must be cut back next year, as in Fig. 5,and this must be done annually as in Pig. 6, for this causes them toramify, and the birds settle in them all the more readily. The earlierthe pruning is d
. How to attract and protect wild birds . Fig. 5. ONE-YEAR-OLD WHORLS RECENTLY PRUNED. or six paces, and their numerous sprouts are lopped at varyingheights—J, 1, IJ, and 2 yards above the ground {see Figs. 3 and 4). 61They should be cut close above the dormant eyes, so that the newgrowth forms whorl-shaped ramifications, which serve the birds as afoundation for their nests. These whorl-shaped sprouts must be cut back next year, as in Fig. 5,and this must be done annually as in Pig. 6, for this causes them toramify, and the birds settle in them all the more readily. The earlierthe pruning is done, the earlier the sprouting takes place. Autumnis better than spring, on account of the early broods. Between the stock-bushes the hedge grows up, serving as a protection,, the bushes which have been cut to the ground. The bushes will. OLD WHOELS RECENTLY PRUNED. have developed greatly in a few years, so that there will be little differ-ence between them and the stock-bushes, and the whole will resemblean impenetrable thicket. The whole wood must, therefore, be cut tothe ground every five or six years, with the exception of the stock-bushes, the tall trees, the rose hedge, and the plants forming thegroups. In order not to interfere with the settling of the birds, thecopse may be divided into several parts, which are alternately cutdown in different years. A bird shelter-wood of this kind thus requires seven to nine yearsbefore it is complete, as generally three-year-old plants are used. Ourobject may be attained quicker if we use older plants. Abundant proof is found every year at Seebach of the remarkablefondness shown by birds for the whorl-shaped to the Ornithological Journal, 1904, p. 490, no fewer than 85nests were found in the autumn of 1904 in the oldest shelter-wood,which is about 8 y
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