The Audubon Societies 



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The little scoop 

 of the Goldfinch 



Woodpeckers and see which ones get their food from under 

 the bark of trees, and which one feeds mostly on the ground 

 around ant-hills. 



When you can study tongues with a magnifying-glass, you 

 will learn much more about them; but with your own eyes 

 you can see many things. Try watching an English Sparrow, 

 You may not be able at first to tell exactly what it eats, but 

 you can find out a great deal about how it eats. — A. H. W. 



FROM YOUNG OBSERVERS 



Do Birds "Freeze"? 



I am a subscriber to Bird-Loke and am much interested in the study of 

 birds. I want to know if any other Bird-Lore subscribers ever saw a bird 

 ''freeze"? I did, and I should like to tell what I saw. I was walking through 

 an orchard at Lake Mahopac, New York, when I saw a Cedar Waxwing fly 

 noisily into an apple-tree. I walked on, but glanced back at the tree. As I 

 was looking at it, I saw the Cedar Waxwing sneak out and fly into another tree. 

 I quickly ran \mder the tree to see what it was doing. There, not far from the 

 ground, stood the bird next to her nest.(?) She was perfectly motionless. I 

 sat down on the grass and watched for ten minutes, and she did not move. 

 Somebody called me, and when I turned around she was gone. I noticed her 

 do it several times, and I often wondered if any of the other birds do it. If 

 any other person has seen them do it, I should like to know of it. — Howard 

 D. Boyle (aged 14), Elmhurst, N. Y. 



[ When suddenly surprised, many birds have the habit of becoming perfectly 

 motionless, or "freezing," as Master Boyle puts it, with the evident object of escaping 

 observation. — A. H. W.] 



YOUNG CEDAR WAXUING- 

 Photographed by A. W. Honywell, Jr., New Haven, Conn. 



