have mentioned are the more common ones we see on their 

 way to their summer homes. 



During the autumn flight there are titlarks (seldom seen 

 in the spring migration.) The Connecticut warbler has been 

 seen a few times. 



In the winter months birds are very scarce near the city. 

 We often wonder what the conditions would be if there were 

 no English sparrows. We must take a trolley and then hike 

 to some woodsy district to study winter birds. 



Bird lovers on Mountain Avenue, East Avenue in Lewis- 

 ton, Taylor street and a mile below Prospect Hill in Auburn, 

 have feeding stations. If the winter is extremely cold 

 scarcely any birds will come to those nearest the city. The 

 most faithful is the downy woodpecker. In mild winters 

 like last many different species are visitors. 



The birds we may see from November till March are the 

 black capped chickadee, goldfinch, goshawk, evening gros- 

 beak, which feeds on the box elders along our city streets, 

 pine grosbeak, ruffed grouse (partridge,) blue jay, junco, 

 red and white breasted nuthatch, redpoll, northern shrike, 

 snowflake or bunting, pine siskin, tree sparrow, starling, 

 downy and hairy woodpecker. I have seen the Hudsonian 

 chickadee, Arctic three toed woodpecker and a flock of shore 

 larks in the fall and none have been reported in winter 

 though they are considered winter birds. Shore larks are 

 seen outside the city when the prairie horned larks arrive in 

 February. The shore larks go north to nest. 



In North Auburn a pileated woodpecker lives through 

 the winter. Golden crowned kinglets are sometimes found 

 in the woods. Crows and herring gulls are here all winter 

 if a mild one. Crossbills have been very rare for several sea- 

 sons, only one of our members seeing any. Sometimes a 

 song and occasionally a white throated sparrow visits a feed- 

 ing station. Robins, purple finches, meadowlarks and 

 sheldrakes are here in a mild winter. In 1921 

 a sparrow hawk was around the city. We never 

 know what bird we may see in winter. One 



January we saw a brown creeper in Riverside Cemetery. Last 

 winter a barred owl was caught on a building along one of 

 our city streets. A Richardson's owl spent part of a winter 

 on Prye street. There have been other reports of owls in 

 the city. In January 1919 a screech owl flew into a barn on 

 upper Main street. 



A few rare birds have visited us. The whistling swan 

 was seen flying over Lake Auburn in November 1917, in 

 October 1920 and April 1921. Bohemian waxwings were seen 



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