pecker, which for many years built in the tall 
trunks of the old pines. This year there was 
but one family. It occupied a last year’s nest, 
two-thirds the way up the trunk of one of the 
two trees called ‘‘ The Twins,” standing shoulder 
to shoulder on the crest of the ridge. 
The rolling country beyond the ridge, away 
southwest to the Helderbergs, is, if not a land 
flowing with milk and honey, a land for birds — 
one that will renew and enlarge our supply if we 
keep open doors. 
There are other favored resorts in and around 
Pine Hills, but especial interest centers with the 
birds that build near our own homes. These — 
robin, bluebird, chippie, songsparrow, wren and 
phoebe, all favorite birds—have increased in 
number noticeably, and with a little interested 
effort might still further be increased. There 
are ways in which this may be done: First, avoid 
destroying them. Toa commendable extent this 
has been accomplished. Second, provide shelteroy 
and food by planting about your home shrubs 
and vines, and trees along the streets and ave- 
nues. The mountain ash, the weeping mulberry, 4 
the dogwood and other fruit-bearing trees and ates 
shrubs attract not only the robin and bluebird, 32 RG 
but others of both summer and winter birds. 
Residents along Pine avenue south to Myrtle 
avenue have more bird life about them than the 
residents along Allen street between the same 
avenues, because they have a better setting of 
trees. The Aurania, pride of the Pine Hillers, 
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