A SEASONAL BIRD CHART 



Mrs. A. B. Morgan, Woodstock 



The making of a Seasonal Chart implies that one has 

 studied birds for a series of years, and has paid special atten- 

 tion to spring and fall migrations with the idea of making 

 such a record that observations will be available at a glance. 

 The use of such a chart is especially opportune for those bird 

 students in a given locality who need a definite guide, and 

 may be used with equal facility by a club, a bird class, by a 

 librarian, or by a teacher. This one which I made for Wood- 

 stock, Hartland and vicinity, I will briefly explain with the 

 hope that members of the Bird Club may make similar charts 

 of their home localities and exhibit them from time to time 

 at future meetings. 



To make the chart, after having made the necessary obser- 

 vations, a sheet of paper 16 x 24 that is both ruled and 

 checked, is required — the ruled lines dividing the sheet into 

 columns that stand for the months, the checks or small divi- 

 sions in each column standing for weeks. In this chart, two 

 checks stand for a week, there are twelve columns for the 

 twelve months, two columns for the names of the birds them- 

 selves, and two for the names of the orders to which they 

 belong. 



After writing the list of birds according to the arrange- 

 ment given in any reliable bird book, a ruling pen is used to 

 draw the horizontal lines opposite each bird's name to indi- 

 cate the portion of the year it is here. For example, takitig 

 the first bird on the chart, the bluebird, a line is drawn from 

 the check indicating March 10, the earliest date I have, to 

 the check indicating November 17, the latest date. Birds that 

 are resident have a line drawn full length across the chart, 

 as for the chickadee ; birds that may occur at any time dur- 

 ing the year and are of varying or uncertain habits have a 

 broken line opposite their names for a part or the whole of 

 the year, as the brown creeper, which occurs in early fall 

 and winter, rarely, but sometimes, in summer, the broken 

 line, in this case, being for April, May, June, July, August 



