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Bird - Lore 



A GREAT BLUE HERON FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Last summer I was camping with about forty other boys on Bear Island, 

 Lake Winnepesaukee, N. H. 



One day, just as we were going swimming, some people landed from a row- 

 boat with a Great Blue Heron, which they had found on the shore of a cove 

 near camp. It seemed to be sick, for it did not try to fly away. 



A SICK (iRKAT lil.l'K HERON" 

 Photographed by John B. May, Jr. 



That noon it was on a point near our landing, and I took several pictures 

 of it with my Brownie camera. 



|We had seen Herons every few days all summer. Two years ago we found 

 about twenty nests near my father's camp, Winnetaska, on Squam Lake, 4a 

 few miles from Winnepesaukee. 



I have tried to photograph Chickadees and Song Sparrows in the winter 

 and it is lots of fun. — John B. May, Jr. (age n years), Cohassct, Mass. 



[This is an unusually successful picture lor a Brownie camera and one that any 

 boy could be proud of. -A. A. A.) 



HOW BIRDS' TASTES DIFFER 



For two or three weeks we have had a suet holder in one of our buckthorn 

 trees, and many birds have come there for their dinner. When I come home from 



