56 Bird - Lore 



BIRD-NOTES FROM MISSISSIPPI 



Not having see any notes in Bird-Lore from Mississippi I thought some 

 of Bird-Lore readers would like to know of my experience in bird-study. 



I have had good success with feeding-boards and bird-baths. The Cardinals, 

 Bob-Whites, and White-throated Sparrows were numerous though the latter 

 only during the winter, going north when spring came. 



During the nesting season I found many bird-nests. They are as follows: 

 lo Mockingbird's, 6 Blue Jay's, 8 Purple Martin's, 6 Brown Thrasher's, 2 

 Cardinal's, i Towhee's, i Orchard Oriole's, 2 Bob-White's, 2 Nighthawk's, 4 

 Loggerhead Shrike's, 2 Red-headed Woodpecker's, i Brown-headed Nuthatch's, 

 I Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher's, i Mourning Dove's, i Meadowlark's, and i 

 Chimney Swift's. 



The Mourning Dove's nest was built on the ground and when the eggs 

 hatched the ants ate the young. Both Cardinal's nests contained but three eggs 

 while last year there were four eggs in all the Cardinal's nests I found. There 

 were twenty eggs in one of the Bob- White's nests and fifteen in the other. 



Some of the above nests we photographed, one of which contained a Cow- 

 bird's egg. When the figs got ripe I put some on my feeding-boards and the 

 Mockingbird ate them. 



I am the editor of a bird-study column in the county newspaper which is 

 published once a week. I was the president of a Junior Audubon Bird Club 

 last year and hope to establish one this year. 



One of my friends and I have made a bird sanctuary of about ten acres. 

 We have five feeding-boards, many bird-houses, one bird-bath, and right 

 through the center of the woods is a small stream. I have made five more bird- 

 houses already for next year. — Leonard Daniel Hardy (age, 13 years), 

 Gulf port, Miss. 



[Bird-Lore readers will congratulate Leonard Hardy upon his activity and success 

 in discovering birds' nests and will quite envy him his opportunities for watching them. 

 Ants constitute a form of bird enemy that our northern birds are seldom troubled with. 

 Will some of our other southern friends tell us their experiences. — A. A. A.l 



A BLUE JAY STORY 



Nellie Small and her mother were spending the winter in Colorado and while 

 there Nellie made the acquaintance of 'Sammy', the Blue Jay. 



Sammy is generally considered a naughty bird but Nellie grew to like him 

 very much before she had known him long. He proved by his actions that he 

 could be a gallant fellow and a friend to the weaker and more timid members of 

 his band. 



Nellie and her mother lived near the mountains in a cabin which was 

 surrounded by large pine trees and at a short distance flowed a clear mountain 

 stream. 



