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as "food-stone," the receipt for which I shall 

 give farther on. Suet is easy to get and easy to 

 handle, many birds like it and eat it freely, it is 

 warmth-producing and nourishing, it keeps fresh 

 for a long time and when it becomes rancid the 

 birds seem to like it just as well. As I look out 

 of my window at this moment, I can see a downy 

 woodpecker feeding on suet which was put up 

 about a year ago. 



I give below a list, by no means exhaustive, 

 of foods in general use for the winter feeding of 

 wild birds; with each kind of food will be found 

 the names of at least some of the birds which have 

 been seen eating it. 



Suet. Screech owl, hairy woodpecker, downy 

 woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker, flicker, blue 

 jay, crow, Clark's nutcracker, starling, tree 

 sparrow, junco, rose-breasted grosbeak, myrtle 

 warbler, brown creeper, white-breasted nuthatch, 

 red-breasted nuthatch, chickadee, Hudsonian 

 chickadee, hermit thrush. 



Fat Pork. Hairy woodpecker, downy wood- 

 pecker, blue jay, crow, white-breasted nuthatch, 

 tufted titmouse, chickadee. 



Raw Meat. Screech owl, hairy woodpecker, 

 downy woodpecker, blue jay, white-breasted 

 nuthatch, chickadee. 



Hemp Seed. Pine grosbeak, purple finch, 



