The Republican journal., 1916-12-07
require cats to be licensed we shall be
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napier and surely the birds will be also.
\, reeuing boxes have been placed in al
the parks and many other places about
the city. These have been visited and
replenlshed every month by very eff
Gent and painstaking committee. Much
work OF this kind has also been done bv
individual members.
OUR club has been able to interest the
Manual Training department of our pub
Tic schools. and 100 nesting houses have
Deen made by the boys. Many of these
nave been placed by the boys themselves
near their homes, and others have been
placed by the boys under the supervision
OF the club. If the boys and girls of
bangor can become bird lovers we feel
that the birds and the community will
reap unestimable benefit.
Last year we put up a few nesting
| boxes and were ENCOURAGED hv the re-
suits to do this work on much larger
scale. Bluebirds have built in the same
mouse for two years and many of the
houses put up inf the early spring have
been occupied this year. We know that
the money we put into nesting boxes was
well spent.
Our club in the spring had 20 trees,
wild crabapple and mountain ash, set out
In different parts of the city, where they
can be under the watchfu care of club
members.
| We expect in a few years our bird pen
sioners will be enjoying the fruit of these
trees in the winter months.
We were delighted in January by some
rare winter visitors, the Bohemian Wax
wing, seen in small numbers, and the
Evening Grosbeak several fiocks, that
came In January and fingered way
through March. Many were the walks
taken to get glimpse of these welcome
| visitors
Our meetings have been well attended.
The papers have all been by club mem
bers. In December, Our Fall and Win
ter Birds, by Miss Bertha Brown: Janu-
| ary. Birds Seen From My Window, BY
Miss Lettie Doak; February, A Half
| Hour with Audubon and the Eagle, by
Miss Selma Paine; March, The Heron as
Seen From Camp Content, by Mrs.
Percy Warren; and III April, Mrs. Lew
son gave paper entitled, "reminiscences
OF Summer and Winter Birds. We are
indeed fortunate to have amonglour own
members those who can give instructive
and interesting papers, such as could be
written only by those whose experience
had been gained from long and sympa-
thetlc study of the haunts and habits of
the birds.
With spring came our field days when
we had several thoroughly delightful
Gays. Then We had the inspiration OF
hearing and seeing the birds while wan
dering in the spring sunshine with bud
ding life all around US. He sang to
| my ear, They sang to my eye" On
| May 81, WE went to Dorothea Dix PARK;
May 10Th, to Six Mile Falls: May Goth,
| 10 Green Lake; June 7th to the Clark
| bungalow, and later to South Orrington.
| From each Of these days we returlied
with some rich experience which made
US glad to be alive and we could echo
| Browning's beautiful words, Gods in
His Heaven, All s right with the world. "
1t is good for US all to get out into the
| open. We love and appreciate the lines
| LongfelloW Wrote on the 50th birthday
OF AgassIz:
And Nature, the old nurse took
The child upon her knee,
Saying, Here is story book
Thy Father has written for thee"
Come wander with me- she said,
Into regions yet untrod
And read what is still unread
| In the manuscript of Cod
And ne wandered away and away
| With Nature, the dear old nurse,
| Who sang to him night and day
| The rhymes of the universe
And whenever the way seemed long,
Or his heart began to fail,
She would sing more wonderful song,
| Or tell more marvellous tale.
The work Of placing posters, putting
up nesting boxes, nesting houses, plac-
ing and tending feeding boxes and put
| ting out suet is no easy task, especially
for women who have to do the work.
But when bird enthusiast, in mid
winter, hears the CHEEKY chick a. dee
dee-dee of our little black capped friend
or sees the tireless Woodpecker or the
patient nuthatch, busy and happy, par
taking of a good square meal provided
by US, we feel more than repaid for all
our labor. And when we found that
within week from the time it was put
up, pair of wrens, very rare in this
vicinity, mo one of our club members
has seen one for seven years. had taken
new rent in beautiful white birch,
we felt thrills of delight. Birch Hill is
a wonderful place for birds. 1t is easy
of access even in winter Perhaps we
have had more results from our work
| there than anywhere else.
We haven't accomplished all we could
wish, but our courage is good and we are
willing. to keep on striving, hoping we
are doing something, ii not much, to
help on the great work of making this
world better place for man to live in. =
Respectfully submitted,
ALICE B. BROWN, Secretary.