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March 29, 1929 WILME.TTE . LIFE in the United States with regard to the presence of this mocking bird. Within the last year or two, "BirdLore." a 'm agazine. published by the Audubon society of the United States, contained an artjcle about mocking birds wintering in the north. One wintered in one of the parks in Boston, and was · seen by a large number of well known bird-lovers. Another one spent the entire winter in Plainfield, N. ], It appears that about twenty years ago one wintered in Do\vner:; Grove , Ill., and. a little later. one was 3een occasionally in Riverside. These are all sporadic cases of a lone bird. One was in Racine a few years ago. Our .mocker does not get along well with the other birds. He drives awa the sparro\vs and the chickadee s and 23 HEREWITH SOME NEWS FOR THE BIRD-LOVERS Kenilworth Man Tells of Interesting Esperience With Song Birda at His Home By E. J. Phelps ' ..J,. (Kenilworth) Few people realize how interesting a problem the bird life along the north shore presents unles's they have taken the time to observe the birds closely. It has occurred to me that some, at any rate, of your readers might be interested in some 0 ervation'3 which we have made at our home in Kenilworth having to do with birds. Up to the middle of December of 1928 we had the usual assortment of the winter birds; a cardinal and his wife the wood-peckers, but one morning while I was watchir.g him through the came occasionally, many sparrows and window. a long, lank. and quite dis blue jays, a number of chickadees, and reputable blue jay appeared. an j evihere and there one of the winter wood - dentlv 1.sked the mocke : what he \vas pec·ker'3. But on December 17 a raritv doing-around there, anyhow. Obviomly appeared in the shape of a mocking a lively discussion ensued. anct all at bird. once, to use the language of the street. Many people would shake their heads they "went to it." As nearlv a - I could at the idea of a mocking bird in Kenil- judge, an expert referee ~vould have worth on December 17. \\'e \\·atched d{'clared the battle a draw. but ince it with our field glasses for some time then there have been a number of and consulted. Pro~es so r Col!es' delig~t- scraps, and on the whole. I should say ~ul .book wh~ch 1s authonty on btr J. 1 that our mocker decidedly more than ltfe tn th~ Umted States, a_nd t~ere can held his O\Vn with the blue jay. Collection of Live Birds be n<? m~stake about the tdent1~cation of t_ht'3 btrd. He returned occasiOnally \\"e have caused to be built in the sun u.n ttl about the fifteerth ~f. January, parlor of our home a bird cage about \\hen he ?ecame a regular VISI_tor. For fifteen feet long. eight feet high, ar. ..: ryve or s1x weeks he took. hts break- six feet across. This is protected by a ~st reg~larly ever.y morntng at our screen the mesh of which is ab out a b1rd-feed1~g ta~le .m the back yard. half-inch or two-thirds of an inch The mockmg b1rd ts n?t a seed-eater, 3quare, and in it we have between forty a~d we hav~ b~en laymg out on the and fi ftv birds. ~one of them are bird table for h'm bread crumbs, pea- native birds, be causf \Ve do not believe nut- bu . tter, banana 5 chopped up fine, in keepin g native birds in captivity. beet steak very finely cut up, and suet. They all belong to the finch family, I have been in correspondence with and come from all over,. the worldsome well known authorities on birds ir om China, Japan, Persia, India, Java, I New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Cen- that she had, been sitting in the screen tral America, and Europe. We have house when a humming bird ftew up been collecting them during the last hard against the screen and his bill twenty years, picking them up from went through one of the meshes of the time to time in bird stores in Chicago screen and he was held there hard and and New York. Our theory is that they fast. She Pr:~sed her thumb against are much happier in our commodious his bill and ~leased him, and be flew quarters than in a foot-square cage away apparently none the worse for in a bird ·s tore. They are vety happy, wear. Wen she told me this story, I breed occasionally, and are not very said nothing, because my experience much care to look after. I cannot sav ha·s been that a wise man will recognize much for their domestic relations but the incontrovertible truth that every.. they are great · companv in the w'inter thing that his wife says is so. Last time. · summer, however, I was in the screen We have seen some queer things house m~self, alone, and identically ~he around our little home in Kenilworth. s~me ~hmg happened to a hummmg In the garden there is a pool of water, bt~d wtth the same result. and the grac~les ~ave a curious habit I . Cats are Taboo (\ g~ackle wtll b_nng a hunk of bread We do not like cats on our premises,. ·n hts mout~ whtch he has gnawed off and if we can apprehend one we speedthe ~.oaf whtch we keep on our bird- ily but mercifully chloroform it. , feedmg table, and he will put it to ! About every other night all winter soak in this pool until it becomes soft long an owl has attacked the out-door enoug_h so that 1-te can eat it easily. windows of our large bird cage. · He He wdl fly away and leave the bread has b~en trying to get at our finches there to soak, and when it becomes but he is unsuccessful because the winsoft enough to suit his fastidious pal- dow panes are very small and quite ate, he will come back after it. thick. In the garden , also. there is a littl~ screen hou3e protected bv a verv fine Ralph Welch, son of Mr. and Mrs. mesh, and we sit there · a gc 1d deal Thomas L. Welch, 623 Eleventh street,. thoroucrhly protected from L e mos- returned this week from the University quitoes. 1-[y wife informed me one day of Illinois, where he is a freshman. I FOVNTAIN 5QVARL [VANSfON ·wilmette 3700 YO-HO! e've Found Shoes That \Von't Scuff! \ \1 ltrs Spring Cleaning Time! The tiresome days of band rug-beating at spring cleaning time are over. 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