Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-13
VALUE AND CHARM OF
OUR OWN NATIVE BIRDS
Observation-Disclosures Before Round Table
BY State ornithoIogist Job.

ny SAdLe OTnltnOloqiSl JoD.
State ornithologist H. X. Job of New
| Haven, speaking at a meeting of the
Round Table to which the public
were invited, made his audience of 100
forget the storm outside Tuesday even
The meeting was held at the Church
structive ILLUSTRATED lecture upon The
| Value and Charm of Oud Own Native
Birds The meeting was held at the
Church of the Good Shepherd, in the
social room, having d large number
! of non members, including some school
children.
President E. A. Tracy Of the Round
| Table gave brief but cordial welsome
to all present as he introduced Mr.
Job, emphasizinf his conviction that
which ought to be given in a church
erif1ce rather than a program of a
| light frivolous character.
Mr., Job showed more than 100 views
birds and their nests, debating that
his picture taking had given him over
/ 5000 pictures in the last fourteen
years In the lecture, Principal f. J.
Working of the Wequonnoc school OBJ
Grated the lantern for him.
At the beginning of his lecture the
state ornithOlOgist advised that more
people make a point of providing
food for the birds during the winter,
showinf how easily this could be done
with feeding places where the birds
could get suet or small grains He
mentioned that one man in Derby runs
a regular lunch counter for the birds
and has a practical monopoly on all
bird life in Derby At one time. Mr..
Job counted eleven kinds of firds feed
| ing at the Derby mans counter on a
/ winter day.
Showing first the winter birds. he
put on slides Of the chicades. downy
woodpecker and his ally the nut
hatch, tree sparrow, junco crossbill, and
! piney grOssbeak. As an insect des-
troyer In q community, the value Of
| the down woodpecker or the nuthatch.
he said might be from $40 to 800.
! They are gre Vt enemies of the leopard
moth.
Among the birds in spring were the
bluebird, song sparrow. chipping spar
row and flicker. The last named is
badly imposed upon by the English
! starting which waits around until the
| flicker has excavated a nest hole in
a tree and then by united action a
| pair Of starlings will dispossess the
| ficl1ler of his newly formed home.
| He told a number of stories of the
wrens warblers and vireos. showing
! how great the attachment Of the
/ vireo to its nest He had pictures
/ to show how he had been able to
/ lift vireO off its nest and feed 1t
| with forms while on the nest the
bird was making an attempt to escape.
Thrushes. satbirds. and brown
| thrashers were shown, with story of
visiting thrashers nest where the two
| parent birds had scratched his hands
with their claws and bills and then
attachek his feet. Among the swal-
| lows he showed slides of the barn.
! tree, bank, roughwig, and purple mar
tin. The last Is the only singer of the
lot and he thought II could probably be
| encouraged TO make 1T homes in neigh
borhOods II baxes were provided for
1t. A Hadlyme man has Invented a
| box which is about the right thing.
Slides Of the European starting were
shown, which has multiplied so exceed
| New York number OF Years ago.
! This bird has become a great pest in
New Zealand and that may be the
result here. Inseetivoous, but also
gramnivorous andfructlvorous.
Mr.. Job closed with his prize pic
ture, the nest Of the great horned
owl with the bird on it, which he
said was the only photograph that
he knew of taken from life 1t was
situated high MP in 2 tree. 81 feet from
the ground and obtained with great
difficulty He also had pictures az
the iiJtle white oWiets in the nest
and the parent bird returninf 10 IT, as
we'll as number of pictures of hawks
nests.
There was a generous burst of an
plause as he concluded and he fas
given rising eete of thanks upon
melton of s. Howard Mead