Feeding, the Birds

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

Feeding, the Birds

DEAR BOYS .AND GIRLS, — TO-DATfwe have pleasure in introducing to you Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and hope you will spend many happy hours with them. am BU ' e you yiH all love the story of these fascinating little people and will eagerly look/forward to the next instalment. . I ex «4ct you all know that August is Bird Month. How many of you ever think of feeding the birds during the winter? If you do feed them yo«. £ be regarded, for the little birds become so tame you just cannot help loving them j?fT many years we have fed the birds in our garden and, oh, how they )® ve become. Every morning the bare trees are coy ere . .. Ind lawn is dotted with blackbirds and starlings all noisily demanding their when I appear with the dish of bread and water, there is a loud /iteration'' and up to the branches and the roof-top they fly, perching there 7 1 But'pwpTutTfew moments later and instead of the familiar green lawn /u will see a moving carpet of little brown birds all hopping about the ground iUsily picking up the breadcrumbs, while jome of the bolder birds have ventured * I on to the verandah. I£ &. Ifl Jj I / Yes, boys and girls, it is great? fun I Q * i feeding the birds on these chilly winter J ■f mornings and I feel sure they really do l f appreciate it when food is so scarce. | i Love and happiness to you all, from •*»