. Bird lore . s already time to begin to prepare these dwellings, and, as tells us, the sooner we place them out of doors the sooner will theybegin to look as though they be-longed there. In the next issue ofBird-Lore we will give a plan forthe study of Bird Tenants, and atthe same time make some sugges-tions which we are sure will interestour young observers. The first prize for the letters on Feeding Birds in Winter was wonby Miss Emily N. Hoxie, whosearticle is published below. Feeding Birds in Winter By EMILY N. HOXIE, Peace Dale, R. I. Last winter we put out suet inthe trees fo
. Bird lore . s already time to begin to prepare these dwellings, and, as tells us, the sooner we place them out of doors the sooner will theybegin to look as though they be-longed there. In the next issue ofBird-Lore we will give a plan forthe study of Bird Tenants, and atthe same time make some sugges-tions which we are sure will interestour young observers. The first prize for the letters on Feeding Birds in Winter was wonby Miss Emily N. Hoxie, whosearticle is published below. Feeding Birds in Winter By EMILY N. HOXIE, Peace Dale, R. I. Last winter we put out suet inthe trees for the first time, and soonthe Downy Woodpeckers, Nut-hatches, Chickadees and Blue Jayscame and ate. The Chickadeeswould take a few little pecks, thenfly away. The Blue Jays and Nut-hatches would break of^ a big pieceand carry it away, but Downy wouldstay for a long time and make a goodmeal. Only two Downies came, andthey both had the red spots on theirheads. One we called the bigDowny and one the little Downy,. GETTING READY FOR IHE (41) 42 Bird - Lore because there was so much difference in their size. They became very tameand I could roll my hoop under the tree and they would not fly away. Wekept a pan of crumbs out in the yard for the Sparrows and J uncos. ManyEnglish and Tree Sparrows came, and nearly all winter we had one littleSong Sparrow for a daily visitor. He would fly at the English Sparrows anddrive them all away if they ate too near him. We heard him sing in Janu-ary. We had Kinglets in the fall, but they did not stay here in the sunny days we saw little birds (sometimes five at once) flying round thewindows and roofs and porches. We saw they were after flies, so we caughta great many flies in our attic and put them in a box on the window-silloutside. The birds were very tame, and came and ate while we stood at thewindow. We found by Bird-Life that they were Myrtle were flocks of Bluebirds around all winter, and some of them cam
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