Lunch for the Winter Birds 



With the arrival of cold weather most of us become more interested in good 

 things to eat. Not only do we think we need more meat, but we like something 

 hot both to drink and to eat, not only once, but usually three times a day. 



In addition to the regular good feeding required in cold weather, we have 

 set aside several feast days on which we tax our eating capacity to the limit of 

 both comfort and health. 



Also, we waste a lot of perfectly good food which we could give to the birds. 

 It has become popular to know something about birds, and they have many in- 

 terested friends who remember that after the cold becomes severe and the deep 

 snows come, it is difficult for many of the birds to find sufficient food. 



The Audubon Societies and other bird friends are each year providing food 

 for all kinds of winter birds with very wonderful results. 



There is scarcely a back yard where shrubs and trees have been planted that 

 is not visited at some time in the winter by a hungry bird. 



The Audubon Society desires to interest all who have an opportunity to feed 

 the winter visitors, to share their good things with these interesting and valuable 

 friends. 



A piece of suet tied to a tree, seeds and crumbs scattered in the yard, a feed- 

 ing shelf on a window ledge or attached to a tree, will repay many times the effort, 

 in the pleasure you will derive from the entertainment. 



Chicadees, nuthatchers, j uncos, tree sparrows, the downy woodpecker, blue 

 jays, and, in some suburbs, the cardinal, are among the possible visitors who 

 may call on you. 



If everyone who has the opportunity would spread a ^'bird table" in a con- 

 venient, sheltered place where it cannot be reached by stray cats, he would only 

 be paying back a fraction of the debt we owe to our feathered friends for the 

 efficient care with which they search the trees and shrubs for insects and eggs 

 that have been carefully hidden away until next spring, when they would again 

 ravage your yards and gardens if not destroyed. 



Please try it and you will be surprised at the pleasure and results which will 

 surely follow. 



O. M. SCHANTZ. 



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