28 ECE AU DUB O iN! 3B) Ui) Lal Eee len 
Winter-Month 
Feeding 
Simplified 
Bill Stroud of Morton, Il1., active 
member and officer of the Peoria 
Audubon Society, invents bird 
houses and winter feeders which 
he makes out of scrap materials. 
Good ideas of Bill’s — especially 
timely this time of year — include 
(left) a feeder fashioned from a dis- 
carded step table. It works by grav- 
ity flow and requires refilling about 
once a week. Below, Bill displays 
his feeder which consists of a plastic 
bleach-bottle with soldered coffee 
tins inside — plus a few pieces of 
wood, a wire to hang it all with, 
and a roof on the top. 
Mr. Stroud (perhaps the champion 
scrap-lumber scavenger in the coun- 
ty) has constructed a dozen bluebird 
houses, a nuthatch house, flicker 
house, many wren houses, some 
robin platforms, and an 18-room 
martin house. During his business 
rounds of supermarkets in winter- 
time, he also picks up plastic mesh 
produce bags, fills them with chunks 
of suet, and gives them to people in 
town to hang for the birds. 
1968 ANNUAL MEETING 
of the ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Date: Weekend of May 3-4-5 
Place: Orlando Hotel, Decatur, III. 
