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Identifier: howtohavebirdnei00patt (find matches)
Title: How to have bird neighbors
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Patteson, S. Louise (Susanna Louise), 1853-1922
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D.C. Heath and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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HOW TO HAVE BIRD NEIGHBORS fully painted and placed in the shade. But, even withthese precautions, I would discourage its use. Peopleare so apt to forget about placing it in the shade! Ihave seen birds nests in tin cans with little skeletonsembedded in them, the birds having been smotheredby the intense heat which metal will store. Enough wooden boxes are discarded by grocers,druggists, and other merchants to stock the countryevery year with bird houses. If manual trainingteachers will encourage the making of these discards into bird houses, shelters,and feederies, it willmark a step forward inbird protection. Food houses should beprotected so that otheranimals cannot mountand monopolize them,keeping the birds at bay.The red squirrel will dothis unless the food trayis at least five feet aboveground and the post wellsheathed in tin. My newest food househas the lid of a cheesebox as tray and the topFOOD HOUSE, MADE OUT OF of a sugar barrel as roof.WASTE MATERIALS This flat surface is a
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MY BIRD FAMILY 119 handy place for a basin of water. In each of the fourpillars supporting the roof is a hole, to be stuffed withsuet, cheese, peanut butter, etc. My grocer saves thedrippings from his peanut grinder for my birds, sothere is no extravagance in giving them this dainty.Song sparrows and bluebirds like it as well as thewoodpeckers. On the side of the tray I tack nestingmaterial. So this food house, made out of wastematerials, serves several uses. The boy liked it sowell he patterned one after it for his birds. Every autumn a lisping, whispered, dreamy birdsong coming from some low elevation has puzzled me.The bird looked like the song sparrow, but this softwarble was so different from his spirited spring andsummer songs that I could not believe my eyes.After repeated autumn entries in my notebook, I seehis heavy breastspot heave and swell, and his tailquiver as the song sparrows always does when hesings, I was gratified to find my findings confirmed byanother observer.^ T

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