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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ven by the secretary-.The membership is upwards of eighty, with an average attendance of forty,and the Club has been fortunate in gaining the active interest of man\- bird-lovers from other states who spend the colder months at Winter Park. The activities of this Club, with its splendid personnel and livcl\- interestin the cause of wild bird-conservation, together with the success of the sanc-tuary, has caused Winter Park to become the best known and most widelytalked of Bird Town in Florida, and tidings of its good work are carried liyour winter visitors to man\ distant states. Our active work for the presentseason will begin in October. 452 Bird - Lore The officers are: President, Rev. W. M. Burr; Vice-Presidenl, Mrs. HiramByrd; Executive Secretary, W. Scott Way; Recording Secretary, Miss Kath-erine Stitch; Treasurer, C. D. Powell. The most recent activity of the Cluh is a handsome bird-fountain in one ofthe town parks, plans for which are just completed.—W. Scott Way, Secre-tarv.
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AT A MEETING OF THE WINTER PARK BIRD CLUB Wyncote (Pa.) Bird Club.—The Club has had some interesting meetings dur-ing the past year, the best of which was an illustrated lecture-recital by EdwardAvis, bird mimic. We were unfortunate with the spring bird-walks. Again andagain they were scheduled, and all plans made for a picnic or other out-of-doors jaunt, when the day would bring only rain, rain, rain. One wondered ifso much cloudy weather during the migration would not cause unusual loss ofbird-life. Several interesting visits were made to Briar Bush, the home of a member,a log-cabin set in a clearing of woods, where everything possible is done toattract birds, and where more birds are to be seen to the acre than at any otherplace we have found. Nest-boxes, tenanted, are everywhere; nine rustic bathsare constantly kept filled with fresh water; food is always on hand for thefeathered guests; and a shotgun in a convenient place ready to dispose of astray red squirrel or an encroachin

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