. Department circular. Agriculture. 25 Red-icinged Blackbird. Nothing seems so attractive to this bird as oats thrown on the ground. It will find such food at any season. Meadoivlark. This bird prefers insects to all other food, but in winter will eat small whole grain or cracked corn. When snow lies deep on the ground it comes readily to a patch of chaff thrown on the snow or even on a burlap sack, and feeds about poultry houses, picking up the scattered grain. Dr. N. Chandler Foot recommends mixed hempseed and cracked corn. Miss Evie W. Drew writes that the larks "just stuffed themselve
. Department circular. Agriculture. 25 Red-icinged Blackbird. Nothing seems so attractive to this bird as oats thrown on the ground. It will find such food at any season. Meadoivlark. This bird prefers insects to all other food, but in winter will eat small whole grain or cracked corn. When snow lies deep on the ground it comes readily to a patch of chaff thrown on the snow or even on a burlap sack, and feeds about poultry houses, picking up the scattered grain. Dr. N. Chandler Foot recommends mixed hempseed and cracked corn. Miss Evie W. Drew writes that the larks "just stuffed themselves with buck- wheat and chick-feed " during the winter of 1917-18. This species is wintering more and more in New England. In summer it is fond of old fields where the grass is never cut, and nests by preference in such places. tial. Baltimore Oriole. The Baltimore oriole nests in elms, but these are not essen- Worsted, w^ool and cotton waste for nesting material uill attract it. Cotton twine, strings, yarn and horsehair cut to lengths of about 14 inches and hung out on tree branches may decide it to build its nest anywhere. Dr. N. Chandler Foot recommends worsted and wool, or cotton waste. JNIrs. Olivia G. Carroll hangs in con- spicuous positions a number of crocheted bags or balls, which she fills with pieces of string and cotton batting, and then draws through the interstices twine, yarn, silk floss, thread and horsehair cut in lengths of 12 to 15 inches, and left with both ends hanging out. (See Figs. 28 and 29.) Orioles and vireos seek such material often for their nests, and will build where thev find it easilv accessible, but Mrs. Carroll savs that she has seen kingbirds, chipping sparrows, song sparrows, barn swallows, vireos, robins, goldfinches, cedar waxwings and. Fig. 2S.—Cro- cheted ball filled with cot- ton batting for nest Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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