. Bird lore . hen the lastone disappeared. A flock of about a dozen Redpolls fedon a row of tamarack trees in our drive-way from February 22 till March a heavy snowstorm one venture-some fellow appeared at the windowwhere some Chickadees were feeding. On March i, ten American Crossbills,came to a small spruce tree about twenty-five feet from our house, and industriouslyand systematically exhausted the seedsfrom a small crop of cones in the top ofthe tree. What we consider our most wonderful 278 Bird - Lore observation for the year was a Mocking-bird which perched on a vine just beneat
. Bird lore . hen the lastone disappeared. A flock of about a dozen Redpolls fedon a row of tamarack trees in our drive-way from February 22 till March a heavy snowstorm one venture-some fellow appeared at the windowwhere some Chickadees were feeding. On March i, ten American Crossbills,came to a small spruce tree about twenty-five feet from our house, and industriouslyand systematically exhausted the seedsfrom a small crop of cones in the top ofthe tree. What we consider our most wonderful 278 Bird - Lore observation for the year was a Mocking-bird which perched on a vine just beneathour window for some little time, giving usopportunity to make a positive identifi-cation. This was on December 14, March 3, during the big storm, itappeared again, but we have not seen itsince. We believe this is the first recordof a Mockingbird for Sussex County, al-though the members of our nature-studyclub have kept an accurate list for anumber of years.—F. Blanche , Sussex Co., N.
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