The Audubon Societies 



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Vermont, Dr. H. E. Walter saw a single Robin. The bird flew directly across the road. 

 It seemed in good condition, although the temperature during that week fell to iS° and 

 30° below zero at night. — A. H. W.] 



Our Winter Visitors 



Our school-house is near the woods, and birds — Chickadees, Tufted Tit- 

 mice, Juncos, Nuthatches and Blue Jays — from there visit us. On a little elm 

 tree by the side of the school, and on an apple tree in front, we put suet for 

 our visitors. The crows come unasked sometimes and take away the suet. 

 We also put corn on a cherry tree on the other side of the school for the Blue 

 Jays. In a cigar-box, on the window-sill, we put corn, cracked nuts and chicken- 

 food, and we were very much surprised to see how quickly it went; but one 

 day we saw a gray squirrel up at the box and he jumped into the box, and then 

 we knew what had become of the nuts and food. One of us took some pictures 

 of the squirrel and birds. We are so near the birds here that we see them 

 plainly and can make out the colors. — Helen C. Hicks (aged 8), MilUngton, 

 N.J. 



Our Winter Friends 



Our school has a woods right back of it. We have put out suet, corn and 

 nuts. The Blue Jay likes to eat the corn on the cobs that we hung up in the 



THE COMPETITORS IN A BIRD-BOX CONTEST 



"We live in the semi-arid West, and there is a lack of birds here and a lack of trees. 

 To encourage more birds and less slaughter, a bird-box contest was started in which a 

 small prize was given to the pupil in the school who made the best bird-box. Over 100 

 were entered, and this photograph shows the pupils with the boxes in their hands." — 

 Wilson Tout, North Platte, Neb. 



