Show scare the birds birds in the park said the old south park policeman there used to be lots of them building aesta in ia every bush and singing on every tree but nowadays theres nothing but sparrows sometimes theres a bird OT or two that tries to nest but they ibey dont stay long the bicycles are too much for them you see sea its me like this he continued to his interested listener before got so EO numerous most of the people in the parks and stuck duck pretty well to the roads and add walks and were only around in the daytime but since the bicycles have brought us such ch crowds the whole place is entirely overrun with people who fidfl every shady spot walk around every bush and lean up against every tree especially they wako make night into day and lucky ind the poor bird which can find a iou doubling bLing place that is cot disturbed by the presence of the cut riders the result of this in my observation has haa been the almost entire lack of we the little song binds that used to make the parks a pleasure to walk in dur during i ng summer bummer thero were orioles thrushes catbirds cat birds and robins in the larger and quantities of yellow birds flycatchers and warblers warb lers in the bushes tu in the fall when the leaves dropped croppe AX there could be counted nests in the bare I 1 limbs by the nowadays thel the few f ew nests you yon see are principally sparrows ugh I 1 and tha big policeman turned away disgustedly chicago tribune |