76 WINTER 



your book and identify him from memory. If you 

 cannot, then go out again and again ; and it will not 

 be long before either this first one, or others, will be 

 accurately made out the beginning of an acquaint- 

 ance that you can extend in the summer, but which 

 will be plenty large enough for your " coming-out" 

 winter into bird society. For here is a list of the birds 

 you may be able to find during the winter: 



Screech owl, crow, robin, flicker, jay, goldfinch, 

 ( tree sparrow, English sparrow, song sparrow, junco, 

 golden-crowned kinglet, nuthatch, brown creeper, 

 downy woodpecker, quail, partridge. 



See to it that no bird in your neighborhood starves 

 s for lack of food that 

 you can supply. Tie 

 a piece of suet to a 

 tree or bush near 

 the house (by the 

 window if you can) 

 for the chickadees and blue 

 jays ; keep a place on the lawn 

 cleared of snow and well supplied 

 with crumbs and small seeds for 

 the juncos and the sparrows; hang a 

 netted bag of cracked nuts out some- 

 where for the nuthatches; and provide corn 

 and nuts for the squirrels. 



