. Outing. his regard,who think that winter is no time to beoutdoors. Unless forced to an occa-sional exit, they are shut-ins. At best they but venture from houseto house or for a short walk in a citystreet. The long exposure to over-heated and ill-ventilated rooms and tothe ravages of the sedentary life is amost dangerous ordeal, producing weak-ness and inviting the attack of is a glorious time for active ex-ercise outdoors, in some respects evenbetter than summer, and if an in-terest in the birds can provide an incen-tive to draw people to the wintry land-scape and set them, no
. Outing. his regard,who think that winter is no time to beoutdoors. Unless forced to an occa-sional exit, they are shut-ins. At best they but venture from houseto house or for a short walk in a citystreet. The long exposure to over-heated and ill-ventilated rooms and tothe ravages of the sedentary life is amost dangerous ordeal, producing weak-ness and inviting the attack of is a glorious time for active ex-ercise outdoors, in some respects evenbetter than summer, and if an in-terest in the birds can provide an incen-tive to draw people to the wintry land-scape and set them, now and then, toscouring the open, it will be sufficientlyjustified. It must be admitted, however, thatthe scarcity of birds in winter in nearlyall localities, save in the far South, tendsto discourage many from the there are quite a number of specieswhich winter even in the northern ormiddle districts, hardy creatures whicharc able to withstand rigorous condi-tions of temperature, storm, and scar-. PERCHED ON SOME CONSPICUOUS TREEIS THE RED-TAILED HAWK. city of food. A wonderfully good ideaof what birds are to be found in differ-ent parts of the country on a winterswalk can be gathered by reading inthe January-February number of Bird-Lore each year the reports of theChristmas Bird-Census. The number of species seen by vari-ous observers in a day is usually fromabout six to eighteen, sometimes more—usually more on the coast, in the South,and on the Pacific Slope. At times, onewill hardly see a living thing, but ifone has acquired an interest in birds,their very scarcity will make the appear-ance of the few all the more sight even of a single interestingindividual under these conditions willgive a feeling of pleasure more vividthan might be aroused by many a song-ster in May. The birds to be seen on a genuinewinter outing are not all the is a keen joy in ranging the leaf-less woods and looking through vistas 624 KNOWING THE WINTER BIRDS 625 tha
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