THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



Cardinal Grosbeak 

 Tufted Titmouse (April 1918 to Oc- 

 tober 1919) 



Red-breasted Nuthatch 



Black-capped Chickadee 



Purple Finch 



winter only, and not always 



Montana Junco 

 Myrtle Warbler (into 

 Hudsonian Chickadee 



January) 



get off to go a-birding there are compensations and opportunities 

 in staying at home and letting the birds come to them. The list 

 of forty-four different species (not of course including the Eng- 

 lish Sparrow that I would fain be rid of) is here added, with such 

 comments as may be of value. 

 Twelve months of the year: 

 Downy Woodpecker 

 Hairy Woodpecker 

 Red-headed Woodpecker 

 Bluejay 



In the winter only: 

 Slate-colored Junco 

 Brown Creeper (eats suet only) 

 White-breasted Nuthatch 



Frequent feeders during one 

 the same winter: 

 Redpoll 



American Goldfinch 

 Tree Sparrow 



Only in the winter and then most irregularly and occasion- 

 ally: 



Crow (suet only) Golden-crowned Kinglet 



Ruby-crowned King-let 



In the summer, often bringing their young to the shelf : 



Mourning- Dove Rose-breasted Grosbeak 



Yellow-bellied Sapsucker American Redstart 



Cowbird Brown Thrasher 



Baltimore Oriole Catbird 



Bronzed Grackle House Wren 



Song Sparrow American Robin 



Rare feeders in the summer, some of them only seen once : 

 Flicker Black and White Warbler 



Crested Flycatcher Veery 



Black-throated Blue Warbler Olive-backed Thrush 



Hermit Thrush 



In the migration seasons only: 



Fox Sparrow ) . ' -, . ,, . • ,, -^ 71 



Towhee ( more numerous in the Spring than m the Fall 



White-throated Sparrow 

 White-crowned Sparrow 



To these forty-four may be 

 added those which (1) have 

 fed more or less frequently on 

 the ground immediately be- 

 neath the shelf from seeds 

 which fell from it, and those 

 which (2) have bathed in or 

 drunk from the bath which is 

 TREN y DErv r §us RO AT rt THE food shelf not ten feet from the shelf. 



(1) and (2) Evening Grosbeak, Magnolia Warbler, Wood Thrush. 



(1) Scarlet Tanager 



(2) Solitary Vireo 



There are also forty-two other species which have been seen 

 in my yard, all the way from the Geese that have flown low over- 



