cracking the sunflower seeds and casting aside the hulls until 
the shelf and ground were thickly strewn with them (they ate 
ten pounds in the course of the winter), these other visitors 
from the far West were the features of the past season. A 
Song Sparrow came daily for at least three weeks in mid¬ 
winter and a one-legged Chickadee, with “never-say-die” air 
made a place for himself. In all, fifteen species of birds, 
visited the shelf during the two winters. 
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