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Identifier: birdlore131911nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A FAVORITE FEEDING-PLACE -one of the features of autumn nights until I discovered in it another disad-vantage of too-great garden neatness—that is, if one wishes birds,—for thegreat heap of light, dry brush, against which we lay a few spruce boughs,makes not only an ideal winter shelter for birds, great and small, but yields afood supply to many of the shy species that look askance at the formal feeding-station. Already we have seen a Ruffed Grouse run to cover there; from ita pair of Hungarian Partridges have flown several times, and a small covey■of Quail include it in their list of hiding-places; and yet this pile has only beena month in growing. Is this not a proof of the importance of food and shelter?Beyond lie acres of thrifty pasture-land, without bush or break, and several■strips of woodland, posted and protected, yet stripped of underbrush and
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WINTER AMONG THE SPRUCES (281) 282 Bird-Lore pruned to the last degree; but they are birdless now, and, even in May, holdbut few nests, and those evidently of inexperienced young couples. Then, too,when the shallow water in the stone drinking-basin freezes through, and thepool also has turned to ice, there is, below Bluebird Farm, a tiny brook, fed bysurface water and melted snow, that not only gives the Meadowlark his lastobtainable drink, but draws the first Redwings that venture to return totheir old haunts in the alders. There is something in old apple trees so attractive to winter birds that onecomes to search out even old stumps, and use them for feeding-places. Suchan one fell on its knees behind the wall, and, being very comfortable and muchappreciated for its picturesque attitude, decided to live a little longer, andput forth fresh wands that are wreathed in pink each May. A few large lumpsof suet, carefully lashed with wire, make the derelict a favorite borderlandfeeding-pla

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