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plete, I put suet on it and let it run to the tree to wait for hungry 

 birds. 



There are many advantages in having a moving trough. In 

 the first place, it is easier to pull in the trough to the window 

 to add the food, than it is to walk to the trough in the snow. 

 Another great advantage is that the birds can be made accustomed 

 to feed a little nearer to the window each day, until they finally 

 feed at the window sill. After birds feed at the window-sill, 

 or near it, they can be closely watched, and their habits studied 

 with little trouble. 



Upper left — hermit thrush, a belated traveler. Upper right — blue jay. the autocrat of 

 the lunch-counter. Lower left — brown creeper, the silent shadow. Lower right — 

 junco and hermit thrush feeding together. Photographs by G. H. Trafton. (The 

 •picture of the brown creeper should have been placed with body vertical.) 



On November 5th, a pair of white-breasted nuthatches were the 

 first birds to discover the food, and they became daily feeders all 

 through the winter. The next day a chickadee came to feed, but 

 did not come very regularly until November 18th. During 

 this interval a downy woodpecker also came to feed occasionally. 

 November 18th a blue jay found the supply of suet, and soon 

 became quite a regular feeder. These birds soon became ac- 

 customed to eat from the moving trough, as well as from the 

 stationary one. 



Knowing that the birds had already become acquainted with 

 the moving trough, I took down the stationary one, and put a 



