. The making of Birdcraft Sanctuary . erThrush, White-throated, Chipping and Savannah Sparrows,i\Iyrtle Warblers in numbers. Golden-crowned Kinglets, anAcadian Owl, Screech Owls in the red, gray, and intermediatephases, Wood-c 0 c k, Purple rFinches, Flick-ers, a B a y-breasted War-bler, a Black-poll and, on thefirst of Janu-ary, a GreatBlue Hero n,that Av a s soweak from colda n d h u n g e rthat, in spite ofbeing housedand fed uponsmelts, it diedon January 4. We beganat once to keepa list of thebirds and thenames of thosew ho foundthem. The War-d e n mountedall the speci-mens that werein goo
. The making of Birdcraft Sanctuary . erThrush, White-throated, Chipping and Savannah Sparrows,i\Iyrtle Warblers in numbers. Golden-crowned Kinglets, anAcadian Owl, Screech Owls in the red, gray, and intermediatephases, Wood-c 0 c k, Purple rFinches, Flick-ers, a B a y-breasted War-bler, a Black-poll and, on thefirst of Janu-ary, a GreatBlue Hero n,that Av a s soweak from colda n d h u n g e rthat, in spite ofbeing housedand fed uponsmelts, it diedon January 4. We beganat once to keepa list of thebirds and thenames of thosew ho foundthem. The War-d e n mountedall the speci-mens that werein good condi-tion, and we decided to form a small collection of local birds forstudy and exhibition, and to keep them in bookcases in our com-mittee-room. The Warden already possessed a fair collectionof game birds and birds of prey. Why not have a little museum of our own, we asked, wherethe birds that are picked up may be augmented by those to beobtained by exchange or gift, for we would not have anjthingcollected specially for our A FLICKERS NESTING STUB THE MAKING OF BIRDCRAFT SANCTUARY We xilanned a single-room Imilding similar to the bungalow. 25 X 16 feet, open rafters to be of stained wood, the roomlined with cases wherein thesmaller birds might l)egrouped against seasonalbackgrounds, while the largerDucks, ])irds of prey, etc.,could be shown upon raftersor case tops. The accessories and fore-grounds could l)e largelygleaned from wood, shore,and fields; the chief difficultywould be in securing properpainted backgrounds and theblending of the whole. Again Tlie Donor saidGo on, and the IMuseumbuilding, begun in late No-vember of 1914, was openedto the public the Mondayafter Easter, 1915. Betweenthat time and July 1, the dateon which I am writing, 1,300people, not few of them pro-fessionals in bird study, havecome and expressed themselves as more than satisfied. Twohundred school children visited Birdcraft Museum on Arborand Bird Day alone. The work of making this little
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