Monthly Bulletin 13 



NEW BEDFORD 



We have a very interesting visitor at Buttonwood Park, a male chewink, 

 who for some unaccountable reason chose to stay here instead of flying 

 South with his relatives and friends. I have not seen very much of him, as 

 I cannot get out very often before sundown, but he does not seem to me to 

 feel very happy. He spends the most of his time in the vicinity of an open 

 shed in the deer park where the ground is always bare, and at one end of 

 which there are some duck-houses piled up which may afford him shelter 

 at night. I have asked the keeper, who is very much interested in birds, 

 to put about two inches of sawdust in the bottom of a flicker nesting-box and 

 put it in the tree near by. It seems to me that it would be warmer than the 

 duck-houses. We have suet-containers and bird seed near by. We are using 

 the seed mixture that our game commissioner used for the game birds. There 

 are fourteen evening grosbeaks which visit the Park every day and a flock 

 of meadow-larks and horned larks. I know of two coveys of quail. In an 

 open field on the outskirts of the city, I saw, among the juncos, tree sparrows 

 and song sparrows, two white-throats. I have never seen them here before 

 in the winter, but there were great numbers of them in the spring last year. 

 We also have large numbers of goldfinches, some purple finches and a few 

 redpolls. 



Edith F. Walker. 



PEPPERELL 



As has been our custom for many years, we are feeding the birds about 

 our home. We have a grove of ten maples close to the house and have 

 bones and suet a'^tached to ma^^y of the limbs and in the baskets, several feed 

 boxes ard what we call our "trolley," a covered box on a double rope 

 fas'^ened from one of the trees to our staircase window. This we pull in 

 and stock up with some of your prepared seed daily. The dear little chick- 

 adees and nuthatches consider this their own particular lunch counter and 

 have grown so ^?me they even come to it when we have it drawn to the house 

 to get their table for breakfast! Blue jays are numerous and such greedy 

 things; they fi?ht all the other birds from the bones and suet with the 

 excepf^ion of Mr. Hairy Woodpecker, who p^ives them savage digs with his 

 sharp bill if he has reached the tree first. We have seen no juncos yet nor 

 any pine grosbeaks, of which we had a lot last year, a^^d our starlings all 

 seem to have departed recently. Yesterday a crow had the coura-^e to come 

 to the tree near the house, where there was some suet, starved, I suspect, 

 poor bird. I have sent to Mr. Adams for some of the grain from the State 

 a'^d shall have it put over in our orchard a^d pasture for the less tame 

 birds. I may add that we have a drinki-^s" and bath poo' in the "'rove duri"g 

 the summer, and as we own no cat, we have much pleasure with our bird 

 friends all the year round. 



Annetta S. Merrill. 



LITTLETON 



Evening grosbeaks have been seen in Littleton, Mass.; also a number 

 of meadow larks have been noted until this last snowstorm. No juncos or 

 tree sparrows have been seen this winter. 



Margaret E. Thacher. 



