. Bird-lore . s. It is for thisreason that the Cornellbird-house is designed tobe put up in no otherway. A post on the porchor the unshaded side ofthe house will also serveif the box is turned toface outward. The trunkof a large tree, severalfeet below the firstbranches, a telegraphpole, or a high fence-postare other places whichwill prove suitable,although perhaps notquite so satisfactory as theseparate post. An excel-lent place for the largeFlicker or Sparrow Hawkbox is the top of a deadtree, particularly if thesmaller branches are cutaway from around thebox. Occasionally a Wrenor a Nuthatch
. Bird-lore . s. It is for thisreason that the Cornellbird-house is designed tobe put up in no otherway. A post on the porchor the unshaded side ofthe house will also serveif the box is turned toface outward. The trunkof a large tree, severalfeet below the firstbranches, a telegraphpole, or a high fence-postare other places whichwill prove suitable,although perhaps notquite so satisfactory as theseparate post. An excel-lent place for the largeFlicker or Sparrow Hawkbox is the top of a deadtree, particularly if thesmaller branches are cutaway from around thebox. Occasionally a Wrenor a Nuthatch will use a box placed in the shade among the branches of a tree, butsuch places, while appealing strongly to most people as highly desirable, shouldbe shunned. House Sparrows are the only birds that will regularly use boxeswhen so placed. CARE OF THE BOX If a box is well made, once in position, it need never be removed, though itwill probably last longer if taken inside during the winter. Frail or fancy boxes. PROPERLY PLACED BIRD-BOXES There are many trees but the houses are placed in the one in the foreground was occupied by Wrens; that in thebackground by Crested Flycatchers. 66 Bird- Lore should be taken in each fall and replaced in March. Cleaning a box is notnecessary under ordinary circumstances, as the birds will do their own renova-ting, but it is well to have the top or one side hinged, so that one can get atthe inside if necessary, to throw out the nests of Sparrows, or squirrels, or mice,or hornets that sometimes usurp the box before the birds arrive. Aside fromthis there is little need of care, and at the end of the season the old nests canbe thrown out or left in, it making little difference to the birds when they returnthe following spring. The lice which often infest the nests of Wrens are harm-less and die soon after the young leave. If anything is to be done, the nestsshould be sprinkled with insect powder while still occupied.
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