Photo by Ernest Harold Baynes 



A .'BLUE J AY FEEDING ON SUET 



"Perhaps the simplest scheme of feeding, the least trouble, and the most attractive to 

 numbers of birds, is the tying of a piece of suet to a convenient limb, or perhaps to the 

 balustrade of one's piazza, preferably in a protected spot and one that can at the same time 

 be easily watched from some window" (see page 333) 



trays from the weather and at the same 

 time admit light and allow of easy ob- 

 servation. These, when placed among 

 the shrubbery about one's house, prove 

 most attractive. 



Baron von Berlepsch has invented also 

 a food bell that supplies grain, etc., auto- 

 matically from a receptacle above, and 

 which may be suspended from a tree or 

 piazza roof, or any other convenient place 

 (see page 331). 



Window boxes are a never-ceasing 

 source of enjoyment. Mr. Ernest Harold 

 Baynes built the first I ever saw at his 

 home in Meriden, N. H., a particularly 

 attractive one, which has helped him to 

 become intimate with an astonishing va- 

 riety of birds (see page 336). 



Food shelves may be put up in all sorts 

 of protected places — about houses, against 

 tree trunks, etc. ; and a food car, a sort 

 of moving free-lunch counter, which may 

 be run conveniently on a wire from 

 window to neighboring tree, is actually 



manufactured by one enterprising gentle- 

 man ; and the same man builds also a 

 sheltered food-house that turns with the 

 wind like a weather vane, so as to present 

 always a lee side for the better protec- 

 tion of the birds (see page 326). 



Baron von Berlepsch originated also 

 what he calls a food tree, a freshly cut 

 evergreen, preferably spruce or fir, or 

 perhaps a discarded Christmas tree, set 

 up in some convenient place, over which 

 has been poured hot, and then allowed to 

 cool, a mixture of food that is attractive 

 to both insectivorous and graminivorous 

 birds, the receipt for which is given in 

 the little book, "How to Attract and Pro- 

 tect Wild Birds" :* 



"White bread (dried and ground), 4}4 

 oz. ; meat (dried and ground), 3 oz. ; 

 hemp, 6 oz. ; crushed hemp, 3 oz. ; maw, 

 3 oz. ; poppy flour, ij^ oz. ; millet (white) 



* For sale by the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York 

 City, N. Y. Price, 40 cents. 



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