The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-07
PRoTECT1NG BIRDS IN
 LITCHFTELD COUNTY


 With the opening of partridge shooting only few days off the Nor folk Associated Owners Game Pro- tecttve association, now in it's sec ond year, is taking vigorous steps to, protect the young birds-ruh1ed raised on the grounds of members during the last year, from the yawning bags of ambitious gunners. The 18,- 900 acres in Litcf1eld county, con tfolIed by members of this association, will be patrolled by an efficient force of game wardens, under instruct ons to arrest at sight any hunters found trespassing on it's protected property, and in order that there may be no complaint afterwards from those who may run against the law full notice is now being given.
 Upwards of 1 ,00O birds have been hand reared in the last season by members, and probably double that number of wild birds, under the pro- tection Of the association have been reared in hidden nests in the coverts That these hedglingN have lived is largely due to the efforts of members to keep down predatory birds and ami naals, thus giving the mother birds a fair chance to bring their young to ma turtty. The protection extended has probably tripled the native breeding stock in this short time and it is req soma bIe to believe that if the birds are protected during the present shooting tseason, in another year they will have tripled even their present large num- Der. Thiss fall, in the opinion of the members, is the critical period of the Asso citations Game Protective plans for Litchdeld county.
 | In addition to giving the birds prop CT protection during the shooting sea- son. the association is planning to 1 ground feed this game through the
 
 that it will be a. severe one, the mem bers will be put to considerable. ex- pense to winter this feathered stock, which they have so far successfully reared. The members of the Norfolk Own lers Association are encouraged to go to this expenditure of time and energy as well as money by the hattering ex- pfesstons of opinion from bird men of national reputation Litchf1e1d coun- ty in the past year has been visited by officers of the Natural History and Theological societies of New York state as well as by prominent state officers from Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York and they have been unani- nous in saying that nowhere is there better natural cover for game birds and nowhere has this cover been ct ter utilized than right here in Idtch- field county by the Norfolk Owners I Association. It is predicted by these I men that continued successful results l in the matching and rearing of the l native and flight birds will, in a very l few years, put this section of Connec- I ticut back on the lists of national wild fowl breeding grounds and, what is l equally important, will attract and in- I crease the number of song birds so dear to the hearts of both young and Iold in New England
 In the last year members of the as- leociahon have by actual count noted an increase in the number and variety CT the feathered songsters in the hills
 valleys between Winsted and
 man. There is no reason why l jsLitchhe1d county will not again teem with bird life and the once familiar songs of the woodland thrushes, thrashers, vireos. waxwings, tanagers inches, orioles and all the warbIers recently becoming quite scarce, will be heard throughout the land.
 The members of the Norfolk Pro- tective Owners Game Protective As sociation whose lands will be patroIIed by wardens on the lookout for tres passing gunners are: Louis Anstead l Charles B. BigeIow, Walter Bowne Patrick Bresnahan, Nora Bresnahan I Curtiss, Mrs. Sarah Curtiss, Isabella Eldrtdges Mary Eldridge, P. J. Flagg A L. F'rothinghaTn, Charles H. How Marden, Elizabeth J. Post M I. Pu- pin, Edward Qufntard, D. H. Rowland Hubert Schenherr, Ellen B. Spofford R. B. Stoeckel. J. N. Teeter, F. C. 1 Walcott.