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pass in the vicinity, they are apt to follow the other birds and remain with 

 them. If the feeding-stations are properly scattered about the country, nearly 

 every bird can be secured in this way. On the tip end of one log in a city yard, 

 where we kept food for two years, we secured photographs of seventeen dif- 

 ferent kinds of birds, and a few others, that we did not succeed in photograph- 

 ing, visited the log. 



The other method is to wait until one discovers where the desired birds are 

 feeding and then replenish their supply with as nearly the same kind of food 

 as convenient. Usually they will keep returning to the same spot until the food 

 is exhausted, and will even come back to it from time to time if one forgets to 



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"THERE^,IS SOMETHING INCONGRUOUS ABOUT BIRDS AND SNOW THAT 

 APPEALS TO ONE." A WINTER CHICKADEE 



replenish the supply. For example, a small flock of Prairie Horned Larks, 

 containing a single Lapland Longspur, was discovered feeding in a patch of 

 weeds. The weed seed would soon have become exhausted and the birds 

 have gone elsewhere before becoming accustomed to a camera had we not 

 tramped down the snow in the vicinity and sprinkled chick-feed. This supply 

 was maintained from day to day, and the birds soon formed the habit of coming 

 there to feed. Others followed them until there was a flock of over a hundred 

 Larks, five Lapland Longspurs, and a few Snow Buntings. Had we at this time 

 put up a camera focused on the grain, in an attempt to photograph them, we 

 would probably have frightened them all away. Instead, a box was placed 

 in the snow when the^feed was first put out, and the birds were accustomed to 

 it from the beginning. Another box, with a hole in one end through which the 



