NEJJ' JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY 13 



REPORT OF RIDGEWOOD AUDUBON SOCIETY 



The Ridgewood iiraiich reports continued interest among 

 the school children in the Occupied Uirdhouse contest car- 

 ried on during the i)ast four years. 



Forty-four new houses were occupied the past season, 

 and a larger percentage of girls' took part in the work than 

 ever hefore. In prizes seven copies of F. M. Chapman's 

 Travels of Birds were awarded, fifteen Guides to the Birds 

 of Xew Jersey, and to the rest the cash prize of fifty cents, 

 many of the children using the money for the purchase of 

 Thrift Stamps. 



The birds housed were bluebirds, wrens and chickadees. 



In feedinsT winter birds the Societv found it could re- 

 duce the expense these war times by investing in fifty 

 pound quantities of bird seed, the members then dividing 

 the amount according to the size of each one's bird counter. 

 One hundred and fifty pounds were bought in this way, 

 and part was donated to a feeding counter at one of the 

 schools. 



As the plan worked well, an earlier start was made this 

 fall, and six hundred pounds of sunflower, hemp, youn^ 

 chick feed and scratch food were bought at wholesale rates 

 and distributed among the members and a, few outside bird 

 lovers, at cost price, so the bird larders are full and winter 

 will find feeding tables ready spread and the birds fortified 

 for cold weather. 



Lily M. Orne, 



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