. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. go Bird - Lore and Cedar Waxwings. A Brown Creeper and Red-breasted Nuthatch fed at my stations, with Chickadees, White-breasted Nuthatches, and Downies. The Chickadees and Nuthatches fed from my hands and several more confiding ones took nuts from my lips. A dead tree so full of holes that we call it the 'apartment stub' held at once in its many openings a Flicker, Downy, and a Bluebird, but the latter was driven off by an English Sparrow. The Chickadees made many holes in a fickle manner, half finishing them and then taking others.— (Dr.) Anne E. Perki
. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. go Bird - Lore and Cedar Waxwings. A Brown Creeper and Red-breasted Nuthatch fed at my stations, with Chickadees, White-breasted Nuthatches, and Downies. The Chickadees and Nuthatches fed from my hands and several more confiding ones took nuts from my lips. A dead tree so full of holes that we call it the 'apartment stub' held at once in its many openings a Flicker, Downy, and a Bluebird, but the latter was driven off by an English Sparrow. The Chickadees made many holes in a fickle manner, half finishing them and then taking others.— (Dr.) Anne E. Perkins, Collins, N. BLUEBIRDS AT HOME Photographed by Lester Morlock, Plymouth, Ind. Hanging the Bird-House Like other bird-lovers I have found the annual putting up and taking down of bird-houses to be a good deal of a nuisance, and the means of attaching them to trees or other supports by means of nails or screws a very unsatisfactory method. Re- cently I hit upon a plan which I have tried out for a season and found very use- ful. Instead of fastening the house up with nails I make a small hole on each side of the box, near the roof and near the back. Through these holes, and extending about a foot on each side, I slip a piece of strong but flexible wire. The wire must be strong enough to support the box, but not so heavy that it may not be easily bent. I then drive two nails into the tree or other support on which the box is to be hung, and a little higher up than the place for the box to rest. The nails should be about a foot further apart than the width of the box. The wire I then twist about these nails, making sure that the box hangs straight down and is level. It will be found that this supports the box firmly against the tree, and that the wire is practically invisible. A few seconds' time is sufficient in which to untwist the wire and take the box down, or place it in position. The nails may remain in place for use again. Heavy wire, with hooks formed at each end fo
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