42 T HE: A U'D-U-B ON: (BU ELE ae 
The first week in March Irving Porter and I went over to the 
woods to see some birds. I was looking up into the trees for 
them. All of a sudden I saw a big something up in the tree. I 
said to Irving, “O, look at the Owl.’”’ But I thought it was too big 
for an Owl. I thought it was a cat. Some Bluejays were 
screaming about it. Then it flew. I knew then it was a Great 
Horned Owl. We chased it a long way, but finally gave up the 
chase. 
JACK HAMMON 
When I was walking tc school February twenty-third I saw 
a whole flock of Robins where the new school is going to be. At 
first I did not know what they were. I scared a few of them up. 
I saw that they were Robins. A few of them were singing. 
Without any exaggeration there were hundreds of them. 
CHARLES GOLDER 
Rockford 
Miss Edith Van Duzer writes from Rockford: 
Last spring after the leaves and flowers were out and the 
birds had all come—April 16 and 17—we had a heavy drifting 
snow which remained eight and a half inches deep on the level. 
All winter we had been feeding birds just outside our window 
in feeding station, trees, and vines. After the storm we cut up 
meat, apples, bananas and suet, and threw them under the win- 
dow on top of the snow, together with millet and sunflower seed. 
During the two days we fed Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers, 
Sapsuckers and Flickers, Cedar and Bohemian Waxwings, Ruby 
Crowned Kinglets, Juncos, Robins, Bluebirds, Hermit Thrushes 
and one Myrtle Warbler. Grackles and Rusty Blackbirds and 
Bluejays would come swooping down and frighten away the 
Chickadees and Sparrows, of which the Tree, Song, Chipping 
and White-throated came as well as_ the ever present House 
variety. Even a Crow ventured once within a few feet of the 
house—an unheard of procedure for this suspicious individual. 
Late in the afternoon of the seventeenth a pair of Cardinals 
which had come all winter for sunflower seed came to add to our 
number. It was a wonderful experience and one which no one 
in the house will ever forget. Some of the birds which were not 
in the habit of coming to our feeding station were so tame that 
they would not fly when we came within a few feet of them. The 
top of the snow within a radius of 35 or 40 feet from the feeding 
station was crossed and recrossed with the prints of large and 
tiny feet. This happened where the birds had been fed for 
many years, though many of the birds mentioned had never 
visited us before. It is not so pleasant to add that, even so, many 
dead birds were found on the premises when the snow had dis- 
appeared. 
This winter besides the birds which are always’ with us, 
Robins and Grackles have been reported at intervals, and the 
