42 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 
which they evidently distinguish from familiar 
pieces of furniture and regard with alarm. 
This, too, is the best time to secure pictures of 
Juncos,” Chickadees, Nuthatches, Downy Woodpeck- 
ers, Blue Jays, and less common winter birds. The 
four last named are rarely or never seen about my 
home in winter. Doubtless the abundant and sur- 
rounding woodlands afford them a more congenial 
haunt, from which they are not to be enticed by suet, 
bones, or grain; or, more likely still, the custom of 
putting out food for birds is so unusual in the region 
about New York city that they have not yet learned 
to expect it. It is a most pleasing surprise to the 
21. Junco. x 3. 
resident of this section to observe the numbers and 
familiarity of winter birds in the environs of Boston, 
where a feast seems spread for them in nearly every 
dooryard, 
