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than any other winged creatures. For instance, 
a teal has been ascertained to fly no miles an 
hour by accurate calculation. That means that 
a bluewing could take a little flight down to the 
Chesapeake in a little over two hours and re¬ 
turn to Barnegat Bay to report how the pros¬ 
pects were down there within less than five 
hours, or if things didn’t look good along the 
bay it could coast down over Albemarle and 
Pamlico sound, follow the bays and look at 
affairs on the St. Johns River in Florida in one 
winter night of ten hours and be back next 
night to report the situation to the less rapid 
canvasbacks, redheads, scaup ducks and other 
vegetarian fowls, leaving the sawbills, shell- 
drakes and other members of the “Fisheater” 
tribe to crab and shrimp for themselves. 
As birds leave us for the South, others think 
our little spurt of winter weather is good 
enough for them, and the big owls, “buzzard” 
hawks, bunting chickadees and cardinals,, come 
to us from Upper Canada and Labrador as well 
as from the Atlantic provinces. The native 
birds we have always with us, aside from game 
birds, which do not show migratory tendencies. 
The room is known as a migratory thrush, 
nothing like robin redbreast of Great Britain. 
Undoubtedly millions of robins migrate to the 
South, but hundreds of thousands brave our 
winters and hide in the dense evergreen foliage. 
Meadow larks may or may not emigrate, but 
they seem to be more plentiful in winter than 
in summer, and come about the houses and 
barns to be fed. So it is a humane plan to en¬ 
courage them by giving them grain or screen¬ 
ings on a cleared spot when the snow covers 
the ground. They are among the most useful 
grub hunters in the land. The little wren rep¬ 
resents a family that does not like to leave 
home. Wrens around farmhouses hide in wood- 
piles, outbuildings and barns, coming out on 
warm days in winter. They appreciate bird¬ 
seed, millet and bread crusts. Bluebirds are al¬ 
ways with us. Maybe some of them fly South, 
but the weight of opinion is against this theory. 
Some bird lovers say that they hibernate in 
hollow trees and other oozy places. Certain 
it is that they are out whistling on a fine day 
in February long before the earliest crow black¬ 
bird would dare to come scouting North. 
As the weather grows colder the bluejay 
grows bolder, and they have been known to tap 
on the kitchen window for a “handout” just 
like any other hobo. Of course, the crow, you 
quite well know, will come and go, though his 
flight is slow. He is much tamer in winter 
than in summer and seems to rely on human 
sympathy. A crow or a dozen of his kind may 
be disconsolately sitting on a floe of ice in 
Newark Bay in the depth of winter when an¬ 
other crow will flip in and say: “What’s the 
caws of you black idiots sitting here starving? 
Things are doing down at Trenton on the Del¬ 
aware. a big break up and food galore. Get a 
move on you,” and next day there will be some¬ 
thing like a million crows busy on the ice cakes 
and the banks down behind the State House. 
What they find to eat is a puzzle to the best 
of us. Perhaps next day another scout-crow 
will come whooping in and tell the bunch that 
the northeaster has cast winrows of sea clams 
on the beaches from Atlantic City to Cape May, 
and .you ought to be there to see them get up 
and get. Sea clams! Umph, umph! Did you 
ever see a hundred thousand crows working at 
a hundred million little skimmers? They do it 
methodically. If they cannot wait until the 
clam dies and relaxes its muscles, they will pick 
it up in their claws and fly in the air with it to 
the height of a couple of hundred feet. Then 
the crow relaxes his grip and follows it to the 
beach almost as rapidly as the clam falls. May¬ 
be the clam has fallen on a bunch of them and 
two or three are broken. That’s his object. 
Professor Riker says that he has observed this 
again and again, but the professor need not 
be given any more credit than goes to Captain 
Dave Parker, of Forked River, who avers that 
he saw these black crows cracking skimmer 
clams as big as hen’s eggs against the rusty 
iron bolts of a piece of wreckage from a coal 
barge. Now, Birdseye, will you be nice and 
go to sleep?—Newark Call. 
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