How to Invite Bird Neighbours 



choke cherry, whose racemes ot small black truit 

 ripen from July to September. Here congregate 

 large liocks of crested cedar wax-wings, more 

 properly called cherry birds one thinks when the 

 distended gtdlets of these sociable gourmands are 

 observed through the opera glass. The flickers, 

 which seek the tree at dawn, robins and cuckoos, 

 leave tew cherries tor hungry migrants on their way 

 southward in autumn. There is always a quid pro 

 quo in nature. C)t course the birds are not the re- 

 cipients of purely disinterested tavours. By dropping 

 undigested seeds far and wide, and so starting new 

 colonies ot , plants, they 

 repay their hosts for 

 every tavour received. 

 Tree and bush dog- 

 woods, mountain ash, 

 spruces, pines, juniper, 

 hawthorn, viburnum, 

 elder, black alder, wild 

 plums, blackberries, 

 cherries, crab apples, cur- 

 rants, raspberries, grapes 

 and gooseberries, cat- 

 brier, burning bush, 

 moonseed, wild yam, 

 buckthorn, s u m a c h , 

 holly, bittersweet, wild 

 rose, wintergreen, par- 

 tridge vine, hackberry, 

 snowberry,kinnikinic, auraiia, honeysuckle bushes and 

 twiners, mock orange, hop vine, huckleberries, Vir- 

 ginia creeper, clematis, bayberries, shad-bush — these 



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Photoj^raph by 3ro\vnell 



Arrow-wood berries (October) 



