GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET AT HERBARIUM FEEDING STATION 

 Photographed by Wm. L. G. Edson 



Winter Feeding-Stations at Highland Park, 

 Rochester, N. Y., 1916-17 



By W. L. G. EDSON, and R. E. HORSEY 



THE winter feeding-stations at Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., were 

 continued through the winter of 1916-17, special attention being given 

 to the Herbarium feeding-station, of which a day's record was kept on 

 March 5, 19 16, and printed in Bird-Lore for September-October of that year. 



A window-shelf placed at one of the Herbarium windows gave a chance for 

 close study and sure identification, with photographs of our most interesting 

 visitors, the American Crossbill, seven of which arrived January 15 and were 

 seen almost every day until April 27. They lived only on sunflower seed, both 

 from the food-shelf and food-hopper. At the end of the season (April 26 and 27) 

 two White-winged Crossbills visited the food-hopper. 



The suet was the attraction for another visitor not recorded last winter, 

 a Golden-crowned Kinglet, noted all winter. 



The Cardinal, an accidental visitor at Rochester, was with us again all 

 winter, eating sunflower seed. The last one seen here was in 1913-14. It was 

 recorded in the 'Report from Rochester, N. Y.' on bird-feeding in Bird-Lore 

 for December, 1914. The value of a feeding-station was proved, for sceptical 

 persons were soon convinced of this bird's presence here, by spending a few 

 hours at the stations where food was placed. 



The Red-breasted Nuthatch ate quite freely of sunflower seed, while a year 

 ago we had no record of them doing so. The best result, perhaps, was the nesting 



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