EDGEWOOD PARK AND MITCHELL'S HILL. 



A section of the country around New Haven which is more 

 than usually fruitful for the Bird Student, is Edgewood Park, 

 together with the Westville flats, lying beyond it for three- 

 quarters of a mile, and ending in Mitchell's Hill ; so called from 

 the fact that it belongs to, and adjoins the home of Mr. Donald 

 G. Mitchell, the well known author, more familiarly known as 

 "Ike Marvel." 



The section above mentioned embodies almost all the di^Ter- 

 ent varieties of country found about New Haven. In addition 

 to this it is very easily reached. It has, roughly speaking, the 

 form of a rectangle, bounded on the north by Whalley Avenue 

 and on the south by Chapel Street, being divided into a square 

 and small retangle by Edgewood Avenue. It may thus be 

 reached by either the Edgewood Avenue or the Whalley Avenue 

 cars. 



In the Park proper are found very marshy, as well as dry 

 and slightly wet fields, a grove of evergreens, banks about thirty 

 feet high covered with deciduous growth, and bushy places. 

 Thru the middle flows West River. When the wind blows from 

 the north, northwest or west, the birds are found in largest num- 

 bers between Edgew'ood and W'halley Avenues along the west 

 bank of the Park. 



In the country just described there have been seen over one 

 hundred different varieties of birds : however, they are not as 

 numerous now as they were before the large bushy area just 

 north of Chapel Street was cut out to make room for a lake, 

 which is not yet finished. 



In the flats mentioned above are found dry and ploughed 

 fields and rows of large shade trees along some of the streets. 

 The plant of the Elm City Nursery is also here. It has in it 

 many small trees and shrubs in which numerous birds are found. 



Mitchell's Hill fronts on Forest Street. It is nearly covered 

 with a thick growth of jiuiii)er bushes and small cedars, with a 

 few birches here and there. A road zigzags up the hill and is 

 everywhere bordered on one or both sides w'ith large maples. The 

 Hill seems .to lie on one of the migration routes and during the 

 season numbers of Warblers may be found here almost any 

 morning. On windy days, too, the birds may often be found 

 here on account of the shelter afforded by the evergreens, 



