B Y THE WA YSJDE 
ever since. I put out suet for them to 
eat. I put it by the apple tree it front 
of the window where I can watch them. 
No birds came to eat for a week or so. 
On a calm Sunday morning I noticed 
five little chickadees eating. They would 
carrv little fragments of suet at a time, 
but I would put out some more suet for 
them. I supposed the cats would catch 
them, but they didn’t seem to bother 
them. This morning as I was at school 
I saw a little chickadee hoping on the 
hedge looking for food. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 18 Herman Pletsch. 
The Chickadee is about five and a half 
inches long. It stays with us through 
the winter. In very cold weather they 
come near the house. They live most of 
the time in the woods. They live in de¬ 
cayed trees, where a woodpecker has left 
his'hole. Yours truly, 
Aged 8. Willie Hansen. 
Maywood, Ill. 
Maywood, III, March 1, 1906. 
Dear Wayside: 
The Chickadee is about five and a half 
inches long. He stays with us all win¬ 
ter. He did not stay with us this win¬ 
ter because it was not cold enough. He 
is black, white and yellowish. He calls 
out his own name. He saves lots of 
money for the farmers. I have belonged 
to the Audubon Society for two months. 
Yours sincerely, 
Aged 11. Blanche Schwass. 
Granville Ill. Feb. 26. 1906. 
Dear Wayside: 
Mv letter was not published last month 
so I will try to do better this month. I 
belong to the Audubon society; I have 
been feeding the birds. They have come 
and eaten it. The birds are coming back 
from the South now. The robins are 
here. I have seen the crow and the 
chickadees. The birds are coming from 
the South to build their nests for the 
summer. 
One of the birds that sings the sweetest 
is the song sparrow. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 11. Mattie Hanson. 
Letters have been received from L. A. 
Steinke, Ruth Peterson, De Wayne 
Fisher, S. S. Stansell, Nellie Fleming, 
Arthur P., Mattie Hanson, Henry Han¬ 
son, Clara Surrell, Harold Yaellencourt, 
James Inglis, Henry Kessal, Willie Han¬ 
sen. 
A correspondent from Tonica, Ill., 
writes us February 27th: 
U 0ur first bluebird and robin was seen 
% 
here the 28 inst. I also saw a vesper 
sparrow the 25th. Prairie horned larks 
are very numerous this spring. My 
brother saw a red-tailed hawk building 
over two weeks ago, so you see spring is 
very early this year,” 
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Cora Gautschy, of Gross Point Illnois, 
writes that a Junior Audubon Society 
has been formed of which she is th| 
secretary and Bert Buerger the president. 
They have met several times. Colors 
have been chosen for the new society; 
they are the colors ol the oriole. 
The Wisconsin Audubon free travel¬ 
ing libraries have had a number pf 
new volumes added and are now reacjy 
for the spring work. Any school wishing 
one may apply to the librarian, Mis* 
Edna S. Edwards, Appleton, Wis. 
The article “Illinois Plans Game Pre¬ 
serve" was taken from the Chicago- Tribyne. 
