. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. FEEDING THE BIRDS IN WINTER. Written and Illustrated with Photographs by Hermann Lea. ' Some haunt the rushy moor, the lonely woods; Some hathe their silver plumage in the floods; Some fly to man, his household gods implore, And gather round his hospitable door; Wait the known call, and find pro- tection there From all the lesser tyrants of the. OK HAT TIT. GREAT TIT. IT is with those birds last described by the poet that we have to do, and I want to try to induce all my readers to remember them and give them welcome in the
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. FEEDING THE BIRDS IN WINTER. Written and Illustrated with Photographs by Hermann Lea. ' Some haunt the rushy moor, the lonely woods; Some hathe their silver plumage in the floods; Some fly to man, his household gods implore, And gather round his hospitable door; Wait the known call, and find pro- tection there From all the lesser tyrants of the. OK HAT TIT. GREAT TIT. IT is with those birds last described by the poet that we have to do, and I want to try to induce all my readers to remember them and give them welcome in the hard winter weather. They will be very grateful for your trouble, and if you have a little patience they will get very tame, come when called or whistled or summoned by a bell, and in the spring they will pay for their winter food by singing you songs and doing some real hard work amongst the slugs and other uninvited insects. Moreover, they are interesting and amusing to watch on the long dark days when rain or snow keeps one indoors. Then again, it is an education for the children; for not only will they learn the names and habits of the different birds, they will also learn the lesson of kindness—a lesson which they will apply in after years to others besides birds. But we cruel kindness to feed and attract them to their deaths. Cats are and if cats also frequent our food out of reach of a cat's I have tried is a shallow box high, and placed not too close to might use as a stepping-stone, food, this will depend to a great which come to seek it, though other wild creatures, when hard to food that is not natural to keenly in the hard weather are such as blackbirds and thrushes; them dropping dead in numbers will eat a certain amount of are natural to them, and we must to their tastes. Cocoa-nuts are substitutes, and very few of our cut each nut in half, and either them upside down by a string. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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