Monthly Bulletin 3 



BIRD DAY AT SHARON. 



If skies are fair on Saturday, May 14th — and all good bird people are 

 looking hopefully for that condition — it is probable that there will be a 

 record attendance at the Audubon Society's Annual Outing. All members 

 of the Society and friends of bird protection are invited to spend the day 

 among the birds on the Moose Hill Bird Sanctuary hilltop. There will be 

 no formal exercises, but there will be miles of woodland paths, through a 

 varied country, thronged with bird and plant life. The Headquarters 

 Museum, more interesting than ever before, will be open to all visitors. 

 Warden Higbee and assistants will be in attendance. The Field house will 

 ])e open to all, and there will be an opportunity to purchase sandwiches and 

 other refreshments. There will be an opportunity to park automobiles and 

 a conveyance at moderate rate will take those who do not wish to walk to 

 and from the station, where all trains will be met. Trains from the South 

 Station for Sharon are as follows: Eastern Standard Time (For daylight- 

 saving time, read one hour later), that is to say, an early morning train 

 leaves Boston for Sharon at 6:39 according to the time-table and the South 

 Station clock. Tliat will be 7:39 by your watch if you have it on daylight- 

 saving time. Other trains for Sharon are as follows, standard time: 10:00, 

 11:25: 12:35, 1:33, 2:30, 3:28— Return 10:51, 12:21, 2:18, 3:44, 5:14, 6.10, 

 8:11, 11:08. 



Those who prefer to walk from the station will find a convenient trail 

 through the woods from the railroad tracks to Crossmoor Road. This trail 

 leaves Crossmoor Road again and goes by way of the Big Pine to the 

 Sanctuary Headquarters. The distance is about two miles. 



WORCESTER'S FIRST AUDUBON BIRD FESTIVAL. 



Interest in bird protection and the work of the Massachusetts Audubon 

 Society has grown very rapidly of late in Worcester. Through the good 

 offices of Mr. Harry Sinclair, on Friday, April 22nd, Worcester celebrated 

 its first Audubon Bird Festival. Taken about the city in a swift automobile, 

 Winthrop Packard, Secretary of the Massachusetts Society, and Arthur E. 

 Wilson, lecturer and bird whistler, visited all the outlying schools, where 

 each gave a brief talk on the best method of bird study and bird protection 

 to the school children. In this way several thousand children with their 

 teachers were reached. In the afternoon an audience of about a thousand of 

 the children with teachers and friends assembled in the great auditorium of 

 the new High School, where Mr. Packard gave a talk on "Bird Mysteries," 

 illustrated by colored lantern-slides, Mr. Wilson gave whistling imitations 

 of bird music, and the Audubon Society's moving picture "The Birds of 

 Killingworth" was shown. This Ifecture, with all its features, was repeated 

 in the evening to an audience of about six hundred adults. The whole affair 

 was a great success and reflects great credit on the organizing ability of 

 Mr. Sinclair and the Worcester bird enthusiasts. Through it has come a 

 greatly increased interest in the junior-class work of the National Associa- 

 tion, which was set before all teachers and children, and the work of the 

 State Society, which through it directly gained over sixty new members. It 

 was a splendid rally for bird study and bird protection, and the Heart of 

 the Commonwealth has good reason to be proud of it. 



