The Englewood Bird Club 371 



The Club meets monthly, but a special May Migration Meeting was held 

 on May 18, with an attendance of nearly one hundred. Mr. Chapman made 

 an inspiring address on 'Englewood as a Bird Sanctuary,' setting the pace for 

 the Club, and urging as a community problem of the first importance the 

 conservation and increase of our local bird-life. To this end he outlined a 

 plan for the Club's work, including the planting of shrubbery for food, shelter 

 and nesting-sites, erection of nesting-boxes, and feeding-stands, building bird- 

 baths, and controlling of Enghsh Sparrows, cats, and other bird enemies. 



Steps were taken at this meeting to supply three pubUc schools with com- 

 plete sets of the bird charts of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and a 

 member of the Club donated a framed set of the Fuertes' plates of land- 

 birds, in Eaton's 'Birds of New York,' to be permanently displayed in the 

 public library. 



We were fortunate in having the noted author of these plates as our guest 

 at this meeting, and were entertained by his imitations of birds' songs. 



One of the members exhibited a collection of the skins of local Warblers, 

 which those interested were permitted to examine freely. 



The last meeting of the Club was held on June 4, with an attendance of 

 about 135. Bird censuses designed to show the bird population of various parts 

 of Englewood were presented by Mrs. Graham Summer, Mrs. Dan Fellowes 

 Piatt, Miss Sarah J. Day, Frederic C. Walcott, Frank M. Chapman and 

 Robert T. Lemmon, and illustrated talks on local bird-life were given by Mr. 

 Chapman and Mr. Beecher S. Bowdish, Secretary of the New Jersey Audubon 

 Society. 



The Club then adjourned until October 4, when it hopes to open its season's 

 campaign with an exhibit of nesting-boxes, feeding services. Sparrow-traps, etc. 



Bird Photography and Suet Stations 



By ARTHUR JACOT, Ithaca, N. Y. 



With photographs by the author 



IT WAS not so many years ago that wild-bird feeding for pleasure or for 

 profit was a thing unknown or unheard of by the masses. Now hundreds or 

 even thousands are attracting birds by grain or suet feeding-stations. One 

 of the reasons for feeding and attracting the birds is to photograph them, and 

 thus add to our knowledge of them, disseminate knowledge of them, or garnish 

 our studios, dens, books, and so forth, with their cheering, buoyant person- 

 alities. Whatever may be one's purpose, the more natural and charming the 

 surroundings, the pleasanter is the picture. How then can the appearance of 

 a feeding-station be improved? 



Confining ourselves to suet feeding-stations alone, let us note the various 

 methods employed. Those who are confined to the house attach the suet to 



