How to Attract the Birds 



entrance to the cavity on one side of the log, is a 

 pattern that any village carpenter or schoolboy can 

 adapt to the tiny wren and the large woodpecker. 

 Wooden starch boxes, provided with sloping roofs 

 and covered with bits of bark, may be divided into 

 two compartments with an entrance and perches at 

 either end, although a one-room cabin is preferable, 

 for birds love privacy at the nesting season, however 

 large may be their flocks at other times. The ten- 

 ement for twenty families is a modern city attain- 

 ment for humans to which few birds aspire. There- 

 fore, do not make many-roomed houses or put more 

 than one log cabin, can, gourd or box in one tree. 

 Lodgings should be in readiness very early in the 

 spring, lest a pair of hopeful feathered house-hunters 

 slip by, unable to find a home. 



A drinking shell above the reach of cats 



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