6 Monthly Bulletin 



MOOSE HILL BIRD SANCTUARY. 



Some Things We Have Accomplished in Four Years 

 From Superintendent Higbee's Annual Report 



ORIGINAL AREA AND PURPOSE 



Early in 1918 the Society, through its resident Superintendent, under- 

 took the protection of birds and other wild life on a 225-acre tract of diver- 

 sified farm and woodland among the hills of Sharon, hiring for this 

 purpose a little old farmhouse near the centre of the property, on Moose 

 Hill Road. 



Our purpose was two-fold: to demonstrate the value of birds by in- 

 teresting people in their study and protection and showing ways of attracting 

 them about the home, and to provide a safe retreat where our native birds 

 might nest in peace, and be studied under natural conditions. 



PRESENT AREA 



From our original working area of two hundred and twenty-five acres, 

 we have steadily increased, imtil at present we are carrying on this protec- 

 tive work over an extended area of more than nine hundred acres, covering 

 land under several different ownerships and with a varying altitude of 

 from 240 to 540 feet. This has been accomplished through securing the 

 good will and interest of land-owners in this vicinity. 



OUR CONSTANTLY INCREASING PATRONAGE 



About two hundred and fifty people visited our sanctuary office and 

 viewed our exhibits during the year 1918. The following year, as our loca- 

 tion became better known, some thirteen hundred visitors registered here. 

 The third year this number was doubled; while during the past year we 

 registered from all parts of New England and from many other States 4765 

 persons interested in the preservation of wild life. The value of this con- 

 stituency for maintaining and up-building the work of our Society can 

 hardly be over-estimated. 



As a result of these visits new members have been secured, local 

 societies have been formed, and sanctuaries have been established in other 

 places. 



SALE OF BIRD-HOUSES, BOOKS, ETC. 



While the purposes of the Society are in no sense pecuniary, we have 

 gradually become known as headquarters for the best in bird and other 

 nature books, bird-houses, food, and bird material. With new member- 

 ships, contributions and sale of such material, $550.00 has been received 

 here for the Society during the past year. The interest stimulated through 

 these sales is believed to be one of their greatest benefits. 



STATE AND GOVERNMENT WORK 



Supplementing the work of our Society, your Superintendent through 

 his connection with the State Division of Fisheries and Game, and the 

 United States Biological Survey, renders separate reports of his activities 

 to both these departments, whose helpful co-operation adds greatly to the 

 interest and value of our conservation work. 



