478 Bird - Lore 



Charles Gorst, of Boston, gave us a delightful entertainment with his imitations 

 of bird-songs. In May, loo lantern-slides of birds were procured from Albany 

 and shown to the local Boy Scouts. Mr. Sawyer described the land-birds, and 

 F. S. Tisdale the water-birds. During the winter of 1915-16 the club was divided 

 into small groups for field-study under Mr. Sawyer's leadership. At the regular 

 meetings talks and papers were given by members on personal experiences with 

 bird-identification. In April, Mrs. G. D. Gregor opened her home to the Club, 

 and a program on bird-music was enjoyed. 



In June, the Watertown Daily Times cooperated with the Bird Club in a 

 publicity campaign on the 'Squirrel Question.' The gray squirrels, imported 

 several years ago for our park, have proved a menace to bird-life in the shade 

 trees of the city. As the state laws protect the life of the squirrels, it was decided 

 to trap them, carry them to some distant woods, and there liberate them. The 

 Club is taking steps to secure a license for cats in order to decrease the number 

 of homeless ones. The Sparrow debate has waxed hot, but no action has been 

 taken by the Club. 



In June, the Club assisted Mr. Sawyer in giving a Loan Exhibit of more than 

 1,000 of his original drawings and water-colors of birds and bird-life. This 

 exhibit was greatly enjoyed and received much favorable comment in the local 

 press. The proceeds from it were used toward defraying the expense of the 

 publication of Mr. Sawyer's book 'Land Birds of Northern New York,' which 

 came from the press in July, printed under the auspices of the Watertown Bird 

 Club. 



At the annual meeting, F. S. Tisdale, Superintendent of the Watertown 

 Schools, was elected president, and E. W. Elsworth, 235 Ten Eyck Street, 

 secretary. — Antoinette Rogers, Secretary. 



Winston-Salem (N. C). Audubon Society. — Our Society was organized 

 on February 15, 19 16, with about twenty members. The president appointed 

 committees on membership, program, publicity, and field-work, and all of them 

 have been doing good work for the Society. Our meetings are held once a 

 month, and are made very interesting by papers read on various phases of bird- 

 life and protection. Our committee on field-work has given us much entertain- 

 ing and instructive information discovered among the bird-life of our own 

 community. Our members have put up nest-boxes and feeding-stations for the 

 birds, and have been amply rewarded by the increase of bird-neighbors. Some 

 of us also have been trapping the English Sparrows with good results, one boy 

 having caught nearly 200 of these pests. During the summer we had the great 

 pleasure of hearing Ernest Harold Baynes deliver his interesting lecture 'My 

 Wild Bird Guests' at our local Chatauqua, and as a direct result of his assis- 

 tance our Society was enabled to enroll thirty-three new members, and the 

 whole subject of bird-study and protection received a new impetus in the 

 community. We have placed the magazine Bird-Lore in the public library, 



