CHICKADEES ALWAYS SHOW THEIR APPRECIATION 



"Give us a hand for friendship's sake" — and feed the birds this winter. 

 You'll be well repaid for your trouble. 



flower seed. Its notes are very similar but higher pitched 

 and more nasal like the syllables, yna-yna. 



The brown-headed nuthatch is confined to the south- 

 eastern United States from Delaware and Missouri to 

 Florida, frequenting the extensive pine forests. It is 

 smaller even than the red-breasted species, and its notes 

 are different from either of the preceding, a conversa- 

 tional pit-pit and a scolding dec-dcc-dcc, being the most 

 familiar. 



Similar in appearance and habits but still smaller, 

 measuring sometimes less than four inches in length, is 

 the pigmy nuthatch of the Rocky Mountains. 



The nesting habits of the North American nuthatches 

 are much alike. They usually select a knot hole in the 

 trunk of a tree, occasionally a woodpecker's hole, and 

 line it with feathers, leaves, wool, etc. They lay from 

 four to nine white eggs, which, differing from the 

 majority of hole-nesting species, are heavily marked 

 with brown. The common European nuthatch has the 

 curious habit of plastering up the entrance to its nest 

 with mud until the opening is just the right size, and 

 the American red-breasted nuthatch usually decorates 

 the entrance with nodules of pitch as if to make the en- 

 trance less attractive to squirrels and other enemies. 



A TRAIL MARKER 



BY LENA B. HUNZICKER 



A T Old Town, San Diego, California, at the foot of 

 -^*- Presidio Hill, stands a venerable palm tree, the Ply- 

 mouth Rock of the Pacific Coast, the oldest living object 

 to tell the story of the coming of the Spanish to Upper 

 California in 1769. 



The seed from which this remarkable old tree grew 

 was brought with the provisions and supplies of the 

 Spanish expedition and is said to have been planted by 

 Padre Junipero Serra in 1769. Until some five years ago 

 two palms of this first planting were still growing. 



It is said that the only time the trees bore fruit was 



THE "PLYMOUTH ROCK" OF THE PACIFIC COAST 

 The palm at Old Town, San Diego, California, a landmark and still beau- 

 tiful, said to have been planted by Padre Junipero Serra in 1769. 



in 1869, one hundred years after their planting. Front 

 ing a public highway they became much scarred, until 

 in 1887 they were enclosed in a fence to protect them from 

 further injury. A severe windstorm some five years ago 

 so badly damaged the smaller one that it had to be cut 

 down. A portion of the old trunk has been placed in 

 the museum at Ramon's Marriage Place, at Old Town. 

 The other tree has been braced and bids fair to live many 

 more years. 



TTARRY C. HYATT, city forester for Cleveland, Ohio, 

 ■*--'- warns the people of Cleveland that constant vigi- 

 lance is necessary for successful tree culture in a con- 

 gested city. His department has the care of more than 

 125,000 street trees and the trees in over 2500 acres of 

 parks. 



