The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-29
NOTES OF Il BIRD-LOYER.
Continued from Fourth Page.)

How much JOY and interest in life
comes through the study of birds hun
! dreds in and about New Hayaen can
testify. Whether you are sitting on the
porch at home, or taking a stroll in the
parks or riding through the country,
you are constantly on the alert to catch
a flash of color or a snatch of song OF
some old friend or perhaps a new friend
and your interest is intensified many
fold. l know some two score at
least, young and old, who are fairly
besides themselves with joy if they
| learn new bird or discover a nest.
| 1t il question whether the birds are
not becoming more tame and plentiful.
| If men would not shoot them or boys
destroy their nests or take their eggs,
and if the stray cats about our city
Wore exterminated, our song birds
would Undoubtedly show a decided in
crease in number and familiarity, for a
| bird will become as tame as our treat
ment will allow it to be.
In England birds are vigorously pro-
tectel by law and public sentiment,
/ SOllolNASL INV uSSIul GliC O4l 10 XVI ~
How long would our city shade trees
endure against the army of insect-ene
mics, grubs, borers, bugs, and flies that
would multiply and destroy lawns
orchards, forest and shade trees if the
birds did not keep them in check?
From morning till night the vireos
nut-hatches, woodpeckers, Warblers
chickadees and fly-catchers are con-
stantly scrutinizing every leaf aud
twig, every part of the tree-trunk fol
eggs, grubs, worms or flies that, If left
unchecked, would multiply rapidly and
d. stroy or at least hopelessly injure
our trees and Shrubs. Frank Chapman
an authority on the subject, says: In
deed, 1t is not too much to say that
without birds the earth would not long
be habitabe." Why should we not dc
more to protect those creatures that d.
so much for us? How much does New
Haven spend a year in preserving hel
shade trees? Yet the birds do ter
times or one hundred times more tC
preserve them. What G0es the city dc
TO protect the birds? Let the Park
commissioners see that the park laws
and state laws are posted in conspicu.
Gus places in our parks and suburbs
stating the penalty for destroying nest;
or shooting the song birds. Not out Of
sentiment but out of economy and WIS
dom let US be aus Jealous to protect oll
song birds as we Ire to protect oui
trees and flowers of the parks.
1t is encouraging to see so many pu
pills in the schools interested in bir(
study Get a boy Interested in watch
ing the birds, or let lin see the value
the bird has in the preservation of ou
shade trees and he will at once become
the birds best friend, putting food ant
water handy for them, erecting houses
for them to rest in, or saying hands
off" to any WHO would in any wa.
modest them. There is a boys clul
right here in this city with twenty
seven members, whose duty it is t
protect all birds that nest in that par
of the city. Let us extend protection
and friendly hand to those littl
creatures that not only give us so mucl
pleasure by their song and bright color
but which even in their search for dali,
food perform for us such an inealcul
able service. f. S, K.