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ground, among a clump of Barberries and Buckthorn bushes, just outside the 

 library window, from which I can in winter watch the almost constant stream 

 of Chickadees, Juncos, and White-bellied Nuthatches that feed there. Other 

 birds come there occasionally — Blue Jays, and Goldfinches, and an occasional 

 Song Sparrow, but the three first species are there daily. 



This food-house proved so successful that I have since put up another 

 in a nearby tliicket. 



What these two food-houses do not supply, the birds get from the many 

 weeds, berry-bearing trees and bushes, old stumps and coverts, with which 



the West Wood is supplied. 



While the experience with nest-boxes 

 has not been so gratifying as I could 

 have wished, those tending to provide 

 nesting-places in the open have cer- 

 tainly shown marked results, as the fol- 

 lowing lists of birds that are at present 

 breeding, and their comparison, will 

 show: 



On the lawn among the old apple- 

 trees. — Golden - winged Woodpecker, 

 Kingbird, Chipping Sparrow, Robin, 

 Bluebird. 



Among the bordering shrubbery. — 

 Song Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Yellow 

 Warbler, Robin, Catbird. 



Among the trees bordering the road- 

 side. — Baltimore Oriole, Yellow-throated 

 and Warbling Vireos. 



In the meadow. — Red-winged Black- 

 birds, Song Sparrows, and numbers of 

 Maryland Yellow Throats, and, in igii, 

 a pair of Redstarts and a pair of 

 Yellow-throated Vireos. 

 In the East Wood, which is of about the same area as the West Wood, and 

 which before the fire was one of the best coverts hereabouts, and filled with 

 birds, there are today only one pair of Wood Pewees, one pair of Bluebirds 

 in an old Woodpecker's hole, and, probably, two or three pairs of Ovenbirds 

 among the new undergrowth. While, in a pond at the back of the place, a 

 brood of ten young Black Duck 'flappers' were seen disporting themselves 

 during the past summer. 



In the West Wood, with its protecting evergreens, coppice, and the under- 

 growth, which we are working so hard to develop, there breed each year the 

 following birds: 



NESTING-BOX IN PINE OCCUPIED 

 BY SCREECH OWL 



