(^4 Bird -Lore 



lamp-post bulletins which give items of bird news and siiow appropriate 

 pictures. 



The Society made a particular effort to provide adequate winter feeding 

 during the early spring snow- and sleet-storms which meant starvation and 

 death to the birds unfortunate enough to be caught at that season. It also 

 distributed free loo pounds of chick-feed, and at different times put out 

 15 pounds of suet in especially designed wire baskets. — Mary Eastwood 

 Knevels, Secretary. 



Frankfort (Ky.) Bird Club. — Our Club was organized in July, 19 16, 

 following a lecture by Ernest Harold Baynes. In October, Mrs. McBrayer 

 Moore, President of the Bird Club of Versailles, Ky., a neighboring town, came 

 before the Club and gave an interesting talk on the different characteristics 

 of birds, as well as on the separate functions of the wings, tail, feet, and bill of a 

 bird. Mrs. Elizabeth King Smith, of Lexington, Ky., addressed the Club in 

 January of this year, telling her experiences with birds during the last fifteen 

 years. In April, another speaker from Lexington, Mrs. W. L. Maclain, gave 

 an interesting talk on the songs of birds. 



Last winter many persons became interested in feeding the birds during 

 snowy weather, due largely to a campaign waged in the interest of the feathery 

 tribe by members of the Club and by friendly newspaper articles. The Boy 

 Scouts put out a good many seeds. The school-children in general were much 

 interested, and a feeding-station was established in the cemetery. 



Several bird-walks were conducted by older members of the Club for the 

 Junior members, and many of the children taking manual training made bird- 

 houses. Audubon buttons and printed matter on birds were furnished each 

 Junior member. Another Bird Club was organized by a member of the Frank- 

 fort Club, a teacher in a suburban school, and all the pupils evinced much 

 interest. 



At one time in the late winter, while snow was still on the ground, large 

 flocks of Robins arrived in Frankfort, and several bird-lovers entertained 

 literally hundreds in their backyards for several days. One member of the Club 

 solved the problem of how to take care of the birds when the snow was on the 

 ground in January, by sweeping the snow from the roof and sill of her library 

 bay-window, which was directly below the sill of an upstairs window, and fill- 

 ing the window-sill and roof with bread-crumbs, hominy, rice, and hemp seed. 

 The ground-feeders were not forgotten and reveled in all the bird-seed they 

 could eat, feeding on a snow-cleared path. She reported the following birds as 

 her visitors: a Blackbird, Crow, Yellow-hammer, Chewink, Blue Jay, Mocking- 

 bird, several Cardinals, Tomtits, Chickadees, Fox Sparrows, Woodpeckers. 

 Juncos, and the ubiquitous English Sparrows. — Harry G. Bright, Secretary 



