- There are so many plants in the West that provide berries 
or seeds that man destroys, which would protect his cul- 
tivated fruit or vegetables. He must learn to save them, or | 3 
‘to plant them, if he does not want robins, tanagers, purple 
finches, or grosbeaks to take their tithe from the fruits 
he himself likes. 
| The snowberry, the common and the a berried elder, 
sumac, alder, cedar, spruce, fir, pine and hemlock provide 
food the year round in regions where they are to be found. 
_ The wild rose, spirea, hardhack and yarrow spread feasts 
in all except summer months, and then birds will feed upon 
the haws, service berry, thimble berry, wild strawberry, 
- wild blackberry, wild gooseberry, wild red currant, oso-berry 
and the salal, unless such plants are destroyed by man. 
Autumn and winter furnish ample provisions in the wild 
plum, flowering dogwood seeds, madrone, or arbutus, 
_ berries, fruit of the mountain ash, wild cherry, cascara, the 
two forms of Oregon grape, the wild honeysuckle, and the © 
_ red and the evergreen huckleberry. 
Birds that will not build in boxes, but will in rahe 
may often be attracted to an orchard or yard which contains 
a row of red mulberry trees, which fruits early and keeps 
- fruiting for months, and the birds will pay their way in their 
care of all the fruit trees. : 
Other birds will sometimes accept help in the selection 
of nesting material and will take up quarters near when 
short lengths of string, ravellings, bits of wool or cotton, 
horsehair, narrow strips of cloth, or even pans of soft mud, 
are placed where they can find them. Care must be taken 
that the string, horsehair, etc. are short, so that birds, or 
their little ones cannot become tangled in them, for 
many bird students know stories of tragedies for these 
small creatures when unwisely helped. 
- Bread, crumbs from the table, seeds and water to drink 
and for bathing purposes arranged in protected places will 
often cause migrants to look for a nesting site in the neigh- 
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