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Bird - Lore 



A GREAT BLUE HERON FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Last summer I was camping with about forty other boys on Bear Island, 

 Lake Winnepesaukee, N. H. 



One day, just as we were going swimming, some people landed from a row- 

 boat with a Great Blue Heron, which they had found on the shore of a cove 

 near camp. It seemed to be sick, for it did not try to fly away. 



A SICK bRKAi liLLL HERON 

 Photographed by John B. May, Jr. 



That noon it was on a point near our landing, and I took several pictures 

 of it with my Brownie camera. 



!We had seen Herons every few days all summer. Two years ago we found 

 about twenty nests near my father's camp, Winnetaska, on Squam Lake,Ja 

 few miles from Winnepesaukee. 



I have tried to photograph Chickadees and Song Sparrows in the winter 

 and it is lots of fun. — John B. May, Jr. (age ii years), Cohasset, Mass. 



[This is an unusually successful picture for a Brownie canaera and one that any 

 boy could be proud of. — A. A. A.] 



HOW BIRDS' TASTES DIFFER 



For two or three weeks we have had a suet holder in one of our buckthorn 

 trees, and many birds have come there for their dinner. When I come home from 



