A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS 



Official Organ of The Audubon Societies 



Vol. XIII 



January — February, 1911 



No. 1 



Birds and Seasons in My Garden 



I. FEBRUARY AND MARCH 

 By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT 



In the dark silence of her chambers low, 



March works out sweeter things than mortals know. 



For all the sweet beginnings of the spring, 

 Beneath her cold brown breast lies fluttering. 



— May Riley Smith. 



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^HERE is nothing more interesting, 

 and I may even say curious, than, 

 when looking back over a period 

 of thirty years spent more or less under 

 out-of-door influences, to realize the very 

 different emotions called forth by the same happenings in very much the 

 same surroundings. 



In my garden plot covering, in cultivated, open field and wild, not 



