Show LOOKING FOR BIRDS What ishe best place to look for birds Why every kind of place has Its charm for dtflercut kinds of bird Along the little streams or lakes you can find dainty sand pipers green herons I her-ons and phoebes A kingfishers rattling I rat-tling cry may catch your ear you may even see him plunge headlong into the water and como out with n gleaming shiner in his big bill In the marshes are the beautiful clear piping redwings and the chuckling marshwrens und you tray startle a big brown bittern Along the roadways the vesper sparrows spar-rows may liy ahead of you showing their white tall feathers as they go The great thing to learn about birds after you have come to know a number num-ber of kinds are Firstthat every kind docs things In its own way second that they group themselves naturally Into families as much by similar habits as by what scientific men call character charac-ter Thus flycatchers dart out and catch insects on tho wing with a snap of the bill returning to their perch to wait ff r another victim Sparrows like to bo near or on the ground Woodpecker Wood-pecker like to climb about in the trees bracing on their stiff tails head up It has been ascertained that In the main birds like to follow valleys when they can oven go lilt back for short distances dis-tances to enter a valley that will lead them lu their true direction Many birds do not migrate nt aU like the crows chickadees and many hawks amid Woodpeckers while others like the redpoll linnets snowflakes cross bills aitl butcher birds come to us only with vwy cold wlntersSt Nicholas |