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privileged to be host through the winter to a red-headed woodpecker and 
to watch him change his grey head for a red one. We have watched a 
mockingbird weather our northern winter on food provided and on the 
frozen fruit of an old apple tree in a nearby yard. We have raised robins 
on baked custard and worms until they would run along and peck our 
shoes for us to dig more worms, and finally we have had them fiy down 
from nearby trees for us to work for them after they were well able to do 
their own providing. We have had the nuthatch peck on the window when 
our supply of sunflower seed was low, while the robin sat on the sill and 
scolded for raisins. And we have liked the attention even if it is in their 
own interest. 
It is nice to watch for four or five towhees instead of one. That has 
been our fortune since we fed a pair, caught with us in a snow storm, 
through the winter of 1936. There is a satisfaction on winter morning's in 
knowing that the downys and hairys are enjoying the suet; that the 
chickadees, cardinals, and white-breasted nuthatches have sunflower seed; 
that the brown creeper has deemed our bill of fare worthy of a winter 
sojourn with us; and only this morning I saw a band on a returned robin, 
and I’m expecting it to be ours. 
Yes, this bird-banding venture has brought more joy into our lives 
than we had anticipated. 
Wilmette, Illinois. 
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A Four Course Dinner 
By PAUL PUESCHEL 
SOME TIME ago I was told that cardinals like orange peel, and in order to 
attract as many cardinals as possible I put some in my garden near the 
feeding stations. Watching closely to see what would happen, I noticed 
that the cardinals were playing with the peel, though I never could find 
any indication that they really ate any part of it. 
Being generally opposed to leaving food for birds on the ground, I 
decided to offer the orange peel in a more appetizing form and, as an 
after-thought, to enlarge the scope of the experiment by offering half an 
orange. This would give me a chance to find out whether the cardinals 
might possibly be more interested in the juicy part of the orange than the 
peel. I constructed a temporary contrivance to hold half an orange with 
the cut side toward the outside and suspended it from a branch of a tree. 
It was during the middle of March. Though I renewed the orange several 
times the cardinals never went near it during the following weeks. 
Early in May I was ready to admit that my experiment was a failure 
and I was about to take the orange feeder down when I noticed some 
commotion around it. Looking closer, I noticed two pairs of Baltimore 
orioles bustling around the orange. It was about three o’clock and the 
orange kept the pretty birds busy for the rest of the afternoon. It looked 
to me as though they had just arrived from the south and were rather 
hungry. When I examined the feeder toward evening I found that the 
