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After having that number visiting our feeding-place, we could go to the 

 nests of seventeen different kinds of birds. 



I am a little girl ten years old, and a member of the Audubon Society of 

 Findley School, Akron, Ohio. 



I have found the colored plates a great help in studying the birds. I wish 

 every little girl could be a member of this Society. — Elizabeth Foust, Akron, 

 Ohio. 



[Perhaps no more appreciative comment could be made upon this attractive, though 

 unembellished statement of home experiences with birds, than to add a letter from a 

 little girl farther west who is taking up bird-photography with the same pure and sane 

 enthusiasm of the real nature-lover. In both instances, home surroundings are made the 

 starting-point for acquaintance with birds, and, in both instances, that apparently nar- 

 row horizon is rich in results. It was Gilbert White who as long ago as 1768 wrote of his 

 quiet English garden: "All nature is so full that that district produces the greatest 

 variety which is most examined." It is quite safe to say that patient observation in 

 very limited areas leads eventually to records and discoveries of secrets apparently 

 hidden from those who survey Nature only superficially here, there, or anywhere fancy 

 or chance may lead. The summer bird-population with which the writer is most familiar 

 might almost be compared with that of a strictly home-plot, so intimately associated 

 are the birds with particular and probably preferred nesting and feeding areas therein. 

 Possibly circumstances may never again combine so favorably as to make another 

 opportunity for acquaintance with bird-neighbors as fortunate as this. Surely they can 

 never duplicate this particular spot. — A. H. W.] 



A \\ki;.\ AM) lis IlDMK 



AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY 



Not until yesterday did 1 know lliat such a profitable magazine as Bikd- 

 LoKK existed, and now I am anxious to contribute some of my kodak pictures 

 to it. 



1 am a true ioxcr of nature and am es])ecially fond of birds. My camera, 

 lor years, has Ijeen my favorite comi)anion, but not until last year did I realize 

 the real value of bird-pholograi)hy. Now that I know how to get Hiro-Lork, 

 I am more interested than ever. After my experiences, and m\- failing results 



