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Identifier: birdlore21nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ndow-shelf is used, it isalways well to fasten a branch—and preferably an evergreen branch or smalltree—to one side of it. Sometimes a number of branches can he used effectivelyto break the force of the wind and at the same time to decorate the shelf.The more the feeding station, wherever it is, looks like a little corner of thewoods, tlu better the birds will like it. When the schoolroom windows ()()en on a court or narrow street or someplace where, obviousl\-, birds could not be attracted to the windows, one ma\iia\(. Id be satisfied with feeding the birds some place in the school-yard,around the nag-;)oie, or on a post erected lor the pur))o>e In >uch places the 384 Bird - Lore weather-vane feeders and other more elaborate devices that have been describedor advertised in Bird-Lore are very satisfactory. A very simple and satisfac-tory shelf, however, can be made by any child out of the top of a barrelas here illustrated. The hoops are used to make a framework over part of
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A HOMEMADE-FEEDING SHELF AnD A CHICKADEE WAITING FOR AJUNCO TO FINISH EATING the shelf, and this framework is covered with cloth or woven with evergreentwigs to keep out the snow. This sort of a feeding-station could be put up in any place where a childwishes to feed the birds, and teachers should encourage their pupils to makefeeding stations at their homes or in the nearest woods similar to the one atthe school. After the feeding stations have become well patronized, it wouldmake a most interesting field-trip to take the class from one to another, and it The Audubon Societies 385 would probably do more than anything else to clinch the childrens interest inbirds and nature. ANTI-SPARROW DEVICES Two different anti-Sparrow devices have been recommended to readersof Bird-Lore, the first in January, 1903, by W. W. Grant, and the other byW. E. Saunders in January, 1918, and those who are annoyed with the Sparrowsat their feeding stations would do well to refer to them. The writer has foun

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