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A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS 



Official Organ of The Audubon Societies 



Vol. XVIII November— December, 1916 No. 6 



Winter Bird Photography 



By CLARENCE F. STONE, Branchport. N. Y. 

 With photographs by the author 



EARLY in February, 1916, I established a feeding-place for birds close 

 to the side of a building, with the primary object of obtaining bird 

 photographs. 

 For feed I obtained several bushels of weed-seed at a local grain-elevator, 

 and this waste proved to be an ideal bird-food as it contained almost every 

 kind of weed-seed indigenous to this section of the state. 



A small artificial mound of snow was made and seed scattered on its slope, 



SNOW BUNTINGS, HORNED LARKS AND TREE SPARROWS 



