94 METHODS OF ATTRACTING BIRDS 



moving on a wire. The details of this have been 

 worked out very ingeniously by Master Edward 

 Uehling, who, at the time this work was done, 

 was a boy in the eighth grade of school. The 

 author was closely associated with him in this 

 work and tried a similar device at his own home. 

 Some of the most successful results of which the 

 author has known in this latitude resulted from this 

 plan as worked out by his friend during the winter 

 of 1906 and 1907. A wire was put up, sloping 

 from a second-story window to a tree about forty 

 feet distant. On this wire, by means of two pulleys 

 set in a frame, was suspended the lunch-counter 

 partly covered with bark. In one corner was placed 

 a dish for holding water. To this frame a string 

 was attached and run to the window. The slope 

 of the wire carried the counter toward the tree, 

 so that it could be kept in any desired position 

 along the wire. On this were placed suet, nuts, 

 sunflower-seeds, and other foods. At first this was 

 allowed to remain out at full length of the wire, 

 touching the tree. Tree-climbing birds soon 

 found this and came regularly to feed from it. 

 After the birds had become accustomed to com- 

 ing to the counter in this position, it was drawn 

 up a little nearer each day, till at the end of about 

 a month it had been pulled to the window. Those 

 birds which at first came to it continued to do so 



