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pendents are not sometimes forgotten when 

 "the cold snap " and snow and ice make food 

 hardest to get, and our supply of yesterday for 

 the birds is covered up, perhaps. 



For winter feeding, as indicated already, beef- 

 suet, in small pieces (if large they will soil the wings 

 and injure the flight of the birds), may be tied 

 or nailed to a limb ; or a bone with meat upon 

 it, or a piece of cheese-rind may be tied in the 

 same place. The limb may be very near a 

 house. Indeed an evergreen limb may be cut 

 and fastened to the window-sill and hold the food. 

 Again, there may be attached to the window-sill 

 a rimmed shelf with chopped meat, suet, nuts 

 and bird-seed upon it, which, with a little care, 

 will bring to our very eyes and hands, Chicka- 

 dees, Nuthatches, Juncos and other birds. Sun- 

 flower and hemp seeds are relished by many 

 birds and will be an excellent winter diet. Let 

 the placing of the food be always associated with 

 a soft whistle or call, and the birds will soon 

 come to you as do chickens to a human sum- 

 mons. 



But in vain will be our vines and trees and 

 tangles, we shall have no birds to nest and none 



