A SANDWICH FOR TWO 



Photo by Louise Birt Baynes 



Having accepted the invitation, the bird settles down to enjoy his meal. The fact that 

 he must share a sandwich with his host does not disturb him, for, like all birds, he is quick 

 to recognize and trust a human friend (see picture, page 334)- 



or woodland glade may be flooded and a 

 pond thereby installed, there is hardly 

 any limit to the enjoyment that may be 

 derived from a pond of this sort. 



ATTRACTING THE WILD DUCK 



There is a little woodland glade, con- 

 taining an acre or so, on my place, an 

 opening in the woods surrounded by red 

 maples, birches, alders, poison sumach, 

 white azalea, high-bush blueberries, etc., 

 which I flooded one winter merely as a 



safe skating pond for the children in the 

 neighborhood. 



Imagine my surprise and delight when 

 one spring day, after the ice had gone 

 out, I discovered there a whole flock of 

 wild wood-ducks, and later during the 

 summer was able to watch a flock of little 

 "flappers," the progeny of a pair of wild 

 black ducks that had bred there. Herons 

 came there, too, and red wings fre- 

 quented the edge of the pond. From an 

 uninteresting swamp the place had been 



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