144 Wild Bird Guests 



Next let us go to a tree say from ten to twenty 

 feet from the window, and there we will tie a 

 second piece of suet at about the height of the 

 window itself. A third piece we will tie either to 

 the window-sill or to a stick or a board which may 

 be fastened to the window-sill. Those three we 

 will call our main suet stations. Smaller pieces 

 of suet we will tie in trees and shrubs out in all 

 directions from the house and further away from 

 it. These distant ones will probably be visited 

 first, and as the birds gain confidence they should 

 come nearer and nearer until they come to the 

 window itself. 



To encourage those who may think it a difficult 

 matter to gain the confidence of our feathered 

 neighbors, I give the following list of twenty-two 

 kinds of birds which have come to feed at win- 

 dows in the village of Meriden, New Hampshire, 

 where we have been feeding for the past four 

 years. Those marked with a star have visited 

 our own window: 



* Hairy woodpecker, * downy woodpecker, 

 *ruby-throated humming bird, *blue jay, *pine 

 grosbeak, *purple finch, *white-winged crossbill, 

 *redpoll, *pine siskin, vesper sparrow, white- 

 crowned sparrow, white-throated sparrow, tree 

 sparrow, chipping sparrow, junco, song sparrow, 

 *myrtle warbler, *winter wren, *white-breasted 



