Bingham News | 1923-09-08 | Page 7 | Birds on Abandoned Farms

Birds on Abandoned Farms. Naturalists have noticed that the abandoned forms offer great opportunity oppor-tunity for the study of bird life, and i be birds iseem to frequent these lo-'iilltles lo-'iilltles for some reason. Edmund J. Sawyer of Syracuse, N. Y who has commented on this fact in articles for various publications, says that while 'he birds to be found at these places are mostly of the commoner varieties, hut for purposes of observation the abandoned farms offer great ad-vantages ad-vantages because of the numbers to be encountered. Within 800 feet of one of these houses he found nests with n,'gs and young of eleven species. The Hindus wrote of the penrl's beauty more than 1,000 years before Oirlst.