How to Invite Bird Neighbours 



choke cherry, whose racemes of small black fruit 

 ripen from July to September. Here congregate 

 large flocks of crested cedar wax-wings, more 

 properly called cherry birds one thinks when the 

 distended gullets of these sociable gourmands are 

 observed through the opera glass. The flickers, 

 which seek the tree/at dawn, robins and cuckoos, 

 leave few cherries for hungry migrants on their way 

 southward in autumn. There is always a quid pro 

 quo in nature. Of course the birds are not the re- 

 cipients of purely disinterested favours. By dropping 

 undigested seeds far and wide, and so starting new 

 colonies of plants, they 

 repay their hosts for 

 every favour 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, sumach, 

 holly, bittersweet, wild 

 rose, wintergreen, par- 

 tridge vine, hackberry, 

 snowberry,kinnikinic, auralia, honeysuckle bushes and 

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

 ginia creeper, clematis, bayberries, shad-bush these 



Photograph by 3rownell 



Arrow-wood berries (October) 



