water by degrees; in 

 others the bottoms 

 sloped gradually so as 

 to vary the depth. 

 Land birds dislike to 

 step immediately into 

 deep water. A light 

 lunch for them is placed 

 near by and it is an 

 amusing sight to watch 

 them bathe, eat and 

 bathe again. 



One of the objects of 

 the club was the estab- 

 lishment of a bird sanc- 

 tuary and this has been 

 made possible by a gift 

 of a thousand dollars 

 from Miss Helen Wood- 

 ruff Smith. With this 

 money we bought a thirty-acre farm 

 which has been laid out by Mr. Frederic 

 H. Kennard, the landscape architect, and 

 which we are gradually developing into 



Mrs. Baynes with a chickadee friend 



a bird sanctuary. The farmhouse we 

 shall convert into a museum to which 

 people may come to see the best methods 

 of attracting the birds. 



A chickadee at the entrance of a Berlepsch bird box 



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