DAILY DOINGS 



hop along the snowy terrace after the freshly sprinkled 

 seed, and to our surprise a white-crowned sparrow ap- 

 pears among them. The nuthatches, and especially 

 the chickadees, always claim our interest, so that our 

 luncheon party is a lively and diverting function. 



March 3. Although February is the proper time to 

 put up the Berlepsch bird boxes, ours, arriving late, 

 were installed today. Those bird boxes for all hole- 

 nesting birds have been carefully evolved by Baron von 

 Berlepsch after thirty years of study and they have been 

 most successful in Germany where the natural nesting 

 places have been cleared away. It remains to be 

 proven whether there is the same need for them in this 

 country. In suburban towns, flickers, woodpeckers, 

 wrens, bluebirds and chickadees have accepted them 

 eagerly. In the illustration is shown one of the wren 

 boxes under the eaves and a box suitable for woodpeck- 

 ers. 



April 22. A red letter day! A new bird for 

 Wychwood! What a sensation was that first sight of 

 a woodcock this afternoon; I might better say sound, 



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