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BIRDS 
be placed on the ground, but a better method is to put the 
seeds and crumbs in a box, with a cover a few inches above 
to keep out the snow. This box should be placed on a post 
or on the side of a tree trunk a few feet from the ground. 
Food placed on the ground is apt to be eaten by stray dogs 
or cats and in the winter time it will be buried by the snow. 
Figure 108 . — Young Crows in Nest Waiting for Food. 
Sunflower heads may be hung to the sides of a tree trunk or 
put on the end of a post. 
During the winter the chickadee, whitebreasted nuthatch, 
downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, red-headed wood¬ 
pecker, brown creeper, flicker, and many other birds may 
come to the suet. Juncos, tree-sparrows, house-sparrows, 
pheasants, crossbills, evening grosbeaks, song-sparrows, and 
prairie horned larks will come to the bird seed and crumbs. 
