. The making of Birdcraft Sanctuary . st have a Sanctuary and you must makeit, said The Donor (this being the only name by which the pub-lic may know the self-effacing giver), at the close of an eveningwhere a group of Connecticut bird-lovers had enjoyed Mackayesmasque together. It was a charming thought, but seemed to me rather a partof the evenings illusion than a reality. Yet the next morning, 2 THE MAKING OF BIRDCRAFT SANCTUARY mail and teleplione took a hand, and l)efore a month had passedthe dream had a firm footing on earth. Have yon thonght ont the land! asked the first trac
. The making of Birdcraft Sanctuary . st have a Sanctuary and you must makeit, said The Donor (this being the only name by which the pub-lic may know the self-effacing giver), at the close of an eveningwhere a group of Connecticut bird-lovers had enjoyed Mackayesmasque together. It was a charming thought, but seemed to me rather a partof the evenings illusion than a reality. Yet the next morning, 2 THE MAKING OF BIRDCRAFT SANCTUARY mail and teleplione took a hand, and l)efore a month had passedthe dream had a firm footing on earth. Have yon thonght ont the land! asked the first tracts came to mind at the call: One, a hundred-acre strip,with a river frontage, four miles back in the hill-conntry, whererocks, woods, and tangle combined to make what is considereda birds paradise. The otlier, a ten-acre bit of old pasture, wherecalves and colts had held sway for years. Not many trees had itbut those few were great oaks, pepperidge, cedars, maples, andlilack cherries. The rolling ground had a hill covered with trail-. THE ENTRANCE GATE The Wardens Lodge is shown at the left, a part of the Museum at the right. The Cat-Warden is on guard in the foreground. ing wild berries and a low swale broken by spring holes andhedged with the alders that Song Sparrows love, while the vari-ety of Avild fruits told that the birds had therein been making asanctuary for themselves these many years. Moreover theland was but a ten minutes walk from trolley, village and rail-way station, and so near my own home that daily supervisionwould be possible. Buy the ten-acre lot, called the telephone, and make theplan of what you think Birdcraft Sanctuary (thus The Donornamed it after my first bird book) should be. The birds andtheir comfort should be the first consideration; it must be THE MAKING OF BIRUCRAFT SANCTUARYcu31924090201306
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