A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS 



Official Organ of The Audubon Societies 



Vol. XV 



May— June, 1913 



No. 3 



A Bird Apartment House 



By ALBERT MORGAN, "West Hartford, Conn 

 With photographs by the author 



ONE day, while going down a lane on the way to the Wintergreen Pasture 

 Woods, in Wethersfield Connecticut, my observations led to a sycamore 

 tree in that stage which makes it so strikingly beautiful. Its trunk 

 and larger branches 

 were a mottled sea- 

 green and brown, 

 for it had partly 

 shed its bark. While 

 gazing at and appre- 

 ciating the colors 

 and the grotesquely 

 irregular branches, I 

 was aware of a babel 

 of the voices of bird- 

 land, made up of 

 the notes of the 

 Flicker, Bluebird 

 and Sparrow Hawk, 

 and, upon further 

 looking, it dawned 

 upon me that in the 

 dead branch perfo- 

 rated by several 

 holes there was an 

 inhabited nest, and 

 later in reality there 

 proved to be three 

 families living in 

 this branch at the flicker near entrance to nest 



