Pholo by Anna A. Wright 



Wild Birds as Pets 



Anna Allen Wright 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



We have been feeding our wild birds this winter, and they 

 have proved the most delightful little friends. I know that 

 you would enjoy having them visit you, and they would be glad 

 to do so, if you would offer them a good dinner. Some day they 

 may eat out of your hand, as they have eaten out of ours, and out 

 of the hands of many who have come to see them here. We 

 have an open sunny balcony, just outside the kitchen windows, 

 and often little chickadees fly through the window and eat raw 

 peanuts from the table. The bay-window of the dining room 

 looks right over the balcony rail, where we put the feeding tray, 

 so that the birds are often in sight while we are eating. 



As I sit now beside the window, a little chickadee is swinging 

 in his cocoanut shell basket, not two feet away, another is on the 



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