The Cayuga Bird Club 367 



During the spring, eariy morning field trips for the study of birds have been 

 held each week under competent leaders, nearly a hundred persons attending 

 some of them. During the migration, a bird calendar of the birds seen during 

 the week and of those expected during the week following, together with any 

 other points of local interest concerning the migration, have been published 

 each Saturday. 



The third line of the educational campaign has consisted of announcements 

 and reports of lectures, information about birds, methods of feeding, etc., 

 published in the local papers to the extent of over 600 inches of column space 

 the first, and over 200 inches the second year of our existence. 



Membership in the club has, so far, been limited largely to residents of 

 Ithaca, about three hundred and fifty of whom have joined and are helping 

 in its support as life, sustaining, active, or junior members. Plans for extending 

 the operations of the club to outlying towns are now under consideration. 



The Forest Hills Gardens Audubon Society — 

 A Community Venture 



By MARY EASTWOOD KNEVELS, Secretary 



THE Gardens is probably the first example in this country of a town 

 planned in every essential detail before a spade was put into the 

 ground. The landscape scheme designed by Mr. F. L. Olmsted called 

 for a large outlay in shrubs, trees, vines, flowers, and considerable space 

 allotted to private and public parks, which, with their maintenance and upkeep, 

 meant the constant outlay of money. 



It was with the economic value of bird life in mind as the principal, though 

 by no means the only thought, that the Gardens began what was the first 

 attempt on the part of a purely suburban community to organize for bird 

 protection. 



The actual amount of land at Forest Hills Gardens is small — 204 acres — - 

 and this is not particularly favorable for the cultivation of bird life, as the 

 larger part of it is open and as yet there is little shrubbery for cover. 



Notwithstanding these difiiculties, the Gardens started its campaign, at 

 the suggestion of the National Audubon Society, by inviting Mr. Herbert 

 K. Job to make a survey of the place, and based their initial work on his 

 report. The survey showed what kinds of birds could be expected as summer 

 residents, winter visitors, or migrants — transient in spring and fall, — what 

 birds could be expected to build their own nests, what species would use the 

 artificial nesting-boxes, and what birds required some assistance with their 

 building — such as spreading hair, rags, cotton waste, string, etc., about for 

 them. Winter feeding was advised, and particular stress laid on the need of 

 birds for water both in winter and summer. 



