OUR WINTER BIRDS 



INTRODUCTION 



THE BIRDS AND YOU 



HEN we draw down the shades on a 

 winter night we seem to divide the 

 world into two parts. On one side 

 lie cold and darkness ; on the other, 

 warmth and light. Outside, it may 

 be snowing; the wind howls, the 

 windows rattle before its fierce blasts. Inside, a fire 

 crackles cheerfully on the hearth; there is protection 

 from the storm, food, and comfort. 



How fares it then with those on the other side of 

 the window ? What are our friends, the birds, doing 

 out there in the blackness ? They have no fireside, 

 no cosy chairs to nestle in, no one to prepare a 

 warm supper for them. An evergreen bough, a hol- 

 low limb, or even a snow-drift is all the shelter they 



can hope for; and if they have not had good luck 



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