Identifier: birdlore17nati (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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difficult totell you all the things wesaw while taking our walk. But everyone has the chance of belonging to an Audubon Club and enjoying some of the beautiful walks, as well as studying about the birds and flowers.— Emma May MacIntyre (age ii years), West Philadelphia, Pa., Member of Junior Wake Robin Audubon Club. (The following explanation of the article above is given by the founder of theWake Robin Junior Audubon Society: The work is entirely the little girls own, andI would like to give your readers an idea of the benefit children derive from these Audu-bon club meetings and walks. You will observe that Emma May says little about thebirds, for we saw none on the day of the walk she describes. However, there were manyother interesting things to see, and the children proved to be sharp observers. In classthey are shown birds, wild flowers, berries, leaves, and told their names, so that when thebirds are scarce they find many other beautiful and interesting things. In the Audubon
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THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE WAKE ROBINJUNIOR AUDUBON CLUB The Audubon Societies 475 Corner, which is always arranged for club meetings, there are birds nests, leaves, flowers,country scenes, stuffed birds, curios, and alUays I have something netv and fresh from thewoods. Then we sing nature songs, and recite bird and flower poems. The Wake Robin is not one of the school clubs. I have gathered the childrenfrom various neighborhoods, and hold the meetings at my own home. It has been some-what difficult to organize, on this account. The children sometimes forget the dates ofmeetings, and I am obliged to telephone, write cards, etc., as reminders. Now it hasdeveloped into a very successful club with a membership of nineteen. The children loveto come, and especially do they love the hikes, as they call them. I take them awayofi into the wild country places where trolley cars and automobiles are unknown. Theysee picturesque portions of the country they did not know before. The walks are abou

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