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METHODS OF ATTRACTING BIRDS 



food are suet and fat, nuts, crumbs, and various 

 kinds of seeds. 



From these reports we may conclude that, to 

 attract the downy and hairy woodpeckers and the 

 red-breasted nuthatch, we must depend entirely 

 on animal food, while for the chickadee and white- 

 breasted nuthatch, a great variety of foods may 

 be provided, both animal and vegetable. For the 

 members of the finch family, we must use vege- 

 table food almost entirely. 



Feeding Spring and Summer Birds. If food 

 is kept out during the early spring, even after the 

 winter birds cease to use it, some of the early spring 

 birds may come to feed on it. The following 

 have been reported as doing so : Pine warbler, 

 blackbird, catbird, purple finch, robin, bluebird, 

 Baltimore oriole. In a number of cases where 

 food was kept out during the late spring, birds 

 which nested in the vicinity carried this food to 



