. Bird lore . he different boxes, and intend to try stopping the apertures beforethe moths begin to fly. This will also, I hope, discourage the squirrels andmice. Three of the large boxes (size D) had been occupied by Owls, and in one Notes on Attracting Birds i77 of them a Screech Owl was found nesting. Probably there would have beenmore of these birds about if seven or eight Screech and Long-eared Owls hadnot been trapped, in my absence, by mistaken zeal, last fall, 1909. Also themice would not have been quite so much in evidence. This, however, willnot happen again. The English Sparrows wer
. Bird lore . he different boxes, and intend to try stopping the apertures beforethe moths begin to fly. This will also, I hope, discourage the squirrels andmice. Three of the large boxes (size D) had been occupied by Owls, and in one Notes on Attracting Birds i77 of them a Screech Owl was found nesting. Probably there would have beenmore of these birds about if seven or eight Screech and Long-eared Owls hadnot been trapped, in my absence, by mistaken zeal, last fall, 1909. Also themice would not have been quite so much in evidence. This, however, willnot happen again. The English Sparrows were shot during the early part of the winter; but,after one hundred and thirty of them had been killed, they became so shy thatthey were negotiated with poison. A mixture of wheat and hemp-seed wastreated with strychnine and starch, according to directions given in UnitedStates Farmers Bulletin No. 383. The Sparrows were previously baited totwo feed-troughs on a barn and shed roof. After they had been thoroughly. FORCEPS FOR CLEANING NESTING-HOUSES accustomed to feed from these, the poison was placed in them. It is impossibleto say how many were killed by this method, as they were found dead at somedistance, and numbers were picked up by a neighbors cat. The result, how-ever, was highly satisfactory, as very few were left by the time the Bluebirdsarrived. For the present breeding-season, I have nothing of especial interest toreport except the following: The size C box (2§-inch opening), which hadnot been put out before, became immediately attractive to the Flickers. Thissize was placed in more or less isolated trees at heights of from twenty to thirty•feet. A goodly number were occupied, one brood of Flickers being raised in anoak tree only a few yards from the terrace wall. As to the other boxes, I was disappointed in not finding a single nestingChickadee or Downy Woodpecker. The only species found besides the Owls 178 Bird - Lore and Flickers were Tree Swallows and Bluebirds
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