42 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



The first week in March Irving Porter and I went over to the 

 woods to see some birds. I was looking up into the trees for 

 them. All of a sudden I saw a big something up in the tree. I 

 said to Irving, "0, look at the Owl." But I thought it was too big 

 for an Owl. I thought it was a cat. Some Blue jays were 

 screaming about it. Then it flew. I knew then it was a Great 

 Horned Owl. We chased it a long way, but finally gave up the 

 chase. 



Jack Hammon 



When I was walking tc school February twenty-third I saw 

 a whole flock of Robins where the new school is going to be. At 

 first I did not know what they were. I scared a few of them up. 

 I saw that they were Robins. A few of them were singing. 

 Without any exaggeration there were hundreds of them. 



Charles Golder 



Rockford 



Miss Edith Van Duzer writes from Rockford : 

 Last spring after the leaves and flowers were out and the 

 birds had all come — April 16 and 17 — we had a heavy drifting 

 snow which remained eight and a half inches deep on the level. 

 All winter we had been feeding birds just outside our window 

 in feeding station, trees, and vines. After the storm we cut up 

 meat, apples, bananas and suet, and threw them under the win- 

 dow on top of the snow, together with millet and sunflower seed. 

 During the two days we fed Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers, 

 Sapsuckers and Flickers, Cedar and Bohemian Waxwings, Ruby 

 Crowned Kinglets, Juncos, Robins, Bluebirds, Hermit Thrushes 

 and one Myrtle Warbler. Grackles and Rusty Blackbirds and 

 Bluejays would come swooping down and frighten away the 

 Chickadees and Sparrows, of which the Tree, Song, Chipping 

 and White-throated came as well as the ever present House 

 variety. Even a Crow ventured once within a few feet of the 

 house — an unheard of procedure for this suspicious individual. 

 Late in the afternoon of the seventeenth a pair of Cardinals 

 which had come all winter for sunflower seed came to add to our 

 number. It was a wonderful experience and one which no one 

 in the house will ever forget. Some of the birds which were not 

 in the habit of coming to our feeding station were so tame that 

 they would not fly when we came within a few feet of them. The 

 top of the snow within a radius of 35 or 40 feet from the feeding 

 station was crossed and recrossed with the prints of large and 

 tiny feet. This happened where the birds had been fed for 

 many years, though many of the birds mentioned had never 

 visited us before. It is not so pleasant to add that, even so, many 

 dead birds were found on the premises when the snow had dis- 

 appeared. 



This winter besides the birds which are always with us, 

 Robins and Grackles have been reported at intervals, and the 



