How to Attract the Birds 



bor from May to October ; for the bird population 

 differs in different localities, though they may be not 

 more than ten miles apart, just as surely as it differs 

 from month to month everywhere. Why, you see 

 different birds at different hours of the same day ! 



That is one of the rea- 

 sons why bird study is of 

 perennial interest; there 

 is about it always the 

 charm of variety and the 

 unexpected. 



No sooner have the 

 summer residents and 

 the more tender mi- 

 grants deserted us in the 

 fall than certain hardy 

 birds regularly appear; 

 some, like the chicka- 

 dees, merely from deep 

 woods where they have 

 nested; others, like the 

 sea-gulls in our harbors 

 and the Great Lakes, from inaccessible nesting islands 

 off the northern coast ; still others from the region 

 of the north pole. But whether the so-called win- 

 ter birds come from the next county or from the 

 arctic regions, they are in evidence about our homes 

 only at the most inclement season. With the return 

 of the sun, bringing joy and abundance in its train, 

 away go chickadees, nuthatches, kinglets, winter 

 wrens, longspurs, juncos, snow-buntings, crossbills, 

 redpolls, shrikes and gulls, not to be seen again 

 until the frost or snowfalls of next autumn. 



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"Where Chickadees delight 

 to dangle" 



