MAKING BIRD SANCTUARIES 



and there birds are fed and nesting places provided. 

 It is in the widest sense a "community sanctuary." 

 There are now a number of these cooperative bird 

 havens established and cared for in practically the 

 same way. One is in Cincinnati, another in Ithaca, 

 New York, and still another at Greenwich, Connecti- 

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Birdcrqft Sanctuary. — The best equipped of this 

 class of community bird refuges, as distinguished 

 from private estates, or Audubon Society, State, or 

 Federal bird reservations, is Birdcraft Sanctuary 

 in Fairfield, Connecticut, a tract of ten acres pre- 

 sented to the Connecticut Audubon Society in June, 

 1914. Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, President of the 

 Connecticut Society, has written that in the creation 

 of this sanctuary it was decided that certain require- 

 ments were necessary: 



"A cat-proof fence to surround the entire place. 

 That it may not look aggressive, it should be set 

 well inside the picturesque old wall. Stone gate- 

 posts and a rustic gate at the entrance on the high- 

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