Photo by Thomas iC. Marr and Son 



A JUNCO \'ISITING AN AUDUBON FOOD-HOUSE 



"The Audubon food-house has been much used on this side of the water and is most 

 satisfactory. It consists of a square hip roof, with vertical glass sides suspended beneath 

 and open at the bottom, the whole supported on a central rustic cedar post, encircled with 

 food trays beneath the roof. The glass sides protect the food trays from the weather and 

 at the same time admit light and allow of easy observation. These, when placed among the 

 shrubbery about one's house, prove most attractive" (see pages 331 and 332). 



as well as to the birds, while lanes may 

 be bordered with trees and shrubbery 

 and walls covered with vines without any 

 possible encroachment on the fields. .\n 

 old pasture planted with savin and white 

 pine, hawthorns, elders, barberries, cor- 

 nels, viburnums, and the like, may easily 

 be metamorphosed into a bird reserva- 

 tion and still be useful as a pasture. 



For deciduous growth to be used for 

 cover, choose those berry-bearing trees 

 and shrubs whose berries are most popu- 

 lar with the birds ; and, when possible, 

 choose also those that may offer most 

 convenient sites for nest-building. 



SOME USEFUL FOOD PLANTS 



Care must also be taken in the choice 

 of species, so as to get, if possible, a con- 



tinuous supply of food, using such plants 

 as the cherry, mulberry, raspberr)^, blue- 

 berry, htickleberry, etc., for the summer 

 supply ; elder and the various kinds of 

 flogwood and viburnum, etc., for autumn ; 

 while for winter choose those plants 

 which hold their fruit longest, such as 

 the hawthorn, buckthorn, mountain ash, 

 barberry, ba)'-berry, stmiach, wild rose, 

 and the like. 



Hedges, particularly if the}' are ever- 

 green, are favorite resorts for birds, both 

 in winter and summer, and an arbor-vita: 

 hedge is the best of them all. I remem- 

 ber such a hedge about one side of my 

 father's old - fashioned garden that in 

 summer invariably held its quota of rob- 

 ins', song sparrows', and chipping spar- 

 rows' nests, while in winter it was the 



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