Hebe OD EBON BUELL HIN 31 
but still that 1s better than nothing whatsoever. I have put up suet 
this spring, however, having read that it pays to feed the birds in the 
warmer months as well as in the cold ones. I have succeeded in attract- 
ing Red-headed Woodpeckers and Black and White Warblers. Some 
_ dropped on the ground was taken by Brown Thrashers and Ovenbirds. 
A friend of mine who put up suet has had Downy Woodpeckers and Red- 
heads on it and Creepers (Brown) and Kinglets. There is nothing more 
interesting that I know of. Although my mother does not know anything 
about birds, she enjoys watching them on the bath. I have many in- 
teresting times with the birds in conjunction with my good: turns 
toward them, especially Robins. 
Before closing my letter I will relate two more incidents. I am also 
enclosing two clippings. The pigeon clipping comes from the Minnesota 
Daily Star and the crow clipping comes from the CAristian Science 
Monttor. 
Three years ago when I told this incident it was hooted down among 
my boy friends, but just lately I met with a similar incident that was 
witnessed by two of my boy friends, both interested in birds. 
I had put a log, that had come from a tree that I had cut down, at 
the edge of our garden and had chipped a place to set a large sized bak- 
ing pan for a bird bath. Everyday this log was a favorite place for all 
kinds of birds to sit after a bath and preen their feathers. Because I 
never bothered to cut the grass next to it, the birds came to pull the 
long grass for their nests; also during nesting time I kept the ground 
moist as the Robins enjoyed getting the mud for their nests. One 
morning on getting up at five o’clock to get some gardening done, I 
came out and found a female Kingfisher on the edge of the bath! Now 
that is neither a “‘fishy”’ nor “‘birdy”’ story as proved by the following. 
A few days ago while visiting a boy friend we were looking up and 
down the various back yards for birds when on coming to a long side 
yard enclosed by tall bushes we found in the top of one bush (we were 
at least twenty feet away) a Bittern freezing! We stayed there about 
ten or fifteen minutes and the Bittern never moved except to turn its 
head around to view us. Its head was straight up in the air, facing us. 
In the meantime another boy drove up in his auto and also saw it. He, 
however, had never seen a Bittern before. Regardless of all the autos 
going up and down the alley that Bittern was down on a bush up here 
on the north side! The boy who was with me 1s also very interested in 
birds. We went out to Glenview Saturday to look for birds. The other 
boy in the auto was only casually interested in birds. 
Sincerely, 
Rotanp WILLIAMS. 
