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and adding millet, canary, hemp and sunflower seed, the cooling suet hardening 

 and causing the seeds to cling to the 'stone.' As the Juncos started to come 

 here after the seed spilled from the 'hopper' onto a table underneath, seeds 

 were occasionally scattered for them. 



March 5, 1916, with three feet of snow on the ground, a brisk northwest 

 wind and a heavy snow in the early morning, clearing at 8 A. M. and fair with 

 wind the rest of the day, temperature 20° to 23°, barometer 29.68 to 29.96, 

 was the day taken to record all visits made. 



The first bird seen was a Pheasant passing into the evergreens on the way 

 to a 'Pheasant feeding-station,' to be quickly followed by the Chickadees at 



the 'food-hopper' at 6.37 a. m., and 

 the other birds in quick succession. 



A record was obtained of 25 Chick- 

 adees, 15 Slate-colored Juncos, a pair 

 of Downy Woodpeckers, one Hairy 

 Woodpecker, one Brown Creeper, a 

 pair of Red-breasted Nuthatches and 

 15 House Sparrows, which made a 

 grand total of 2,768 individual visits 

 to the various feeding-places during 

 the day, as shown by the accom- 

 panying table. 



A look at the table will show that 

 birds are no 'fair-weather' visitors to 

 the station, but were there during the 

 storm and early morning, while in 

 the afternoon, when the sun shone, 

 the food-station was almost deserted, 

 the birds preferring to rest or look for 

 plant-lice and other food on the trees 

 and shrubs nearby, thereby well repaying in destruction of insect enemies 

 for the food supplied to them. 



Observing a Slate-colored Junco eating suet is a new experience for us; 

 however, only one bird did so and but sparingly. 



Crows, Gulls and Redpolls were seen to fly over during the day. Our 

 other stations are visited by Tree Sparrows, Pheasants and a pair of Rufifed 

 Grouse, while the Redpolls feed in the birches, and the Cedar Waxwings 

 in the various berry-bearing shrubs and trees. 



As House Sparrows breed freely in the city nearby, in spite of several 

 hundred trapped and otherwise destroyed, a few keep coming to the food- 

 stations, and, if let alone, would chase all other birds away. 



JUNCO AT SUET; FOOD 'STONE 



ON TREE 



Photographed by R. E. Horsey 



