Bird lore - Project Puffin

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talked in various schools in the city. At the February meeting Dr. Edward L.
Rice, of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, traced the evolution of
bird-life, showing pictures of birds with teeth and birds with long tails. He
called attention to the general adaptation of birds to their environment.
'Birds'-Nests' formed the topic for the March meeting, when E. S. Thomas, a
former president, showed pictures of nests taken in and about the vicinity of
Buckeye Lake. Unusual nest5 were brought by members to the meeting, and
were identified by Mr. Thomas.
Through the Cleveland Bird-Lover's Club the Society was able to hear
Henry Oldys in April. Mr. Oldys charmed his hearers with his reproduction
of bird-songs. He talked in several of the schools, and as a result Robin,
Thrush, and Meadowlark calls were to be heard in the school-yards, and everybody
was eager to join the Junior Audubons. Mr. Oldys went with the Society
on a field-trip, when White-throats and other birds were whistled up all along
the route. After that field-trips were taken once a week until July. An excur-
sion to the country home of a member. Dr. R. D. Woodman, proved one of
the most delightful trips. The result of the field-trips has been not only an
increase in our knowledge of birds, but in the promotion of fellowship and of
interest in the Club.
During the spring migration, Mrs. Robert 0. Ryder, the Society's official
recorder, published each week in the Ohio State Journal a story of the birds to
be seen at that time, giving their likely haunts and marks of identification.
In fact, the Society is beginning to be recognized as headquarters for infor-
mation about birds. Frequent calls are received for speakers in schools, or for
out-of-town clubs. These are furnished through the efforts of the Society.
Instead of urging persons to join the Columbus Audubon Society, the
members are often met with the remark, "We want to belong to the Audubon
Society;" or, "Since we have had a country home we have become interested
in birds; what do we have to do to join the Audubon Society?"
Stone, Secretary.
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^Lucy B.
Cumberland (Md.) Audubon Society.— Our Society became formally
afl&liated with the National Association of Audubon Societies on July 8, 191 6.
This action was brought about by a committee of five persons of this city,
early in April, in sympathy with the Audubon morals, and desirous that others
should be of the same mind. Their efforts culminated in several public meet-
ings, the most enthusiastic being the one before which Miss Katharine Stuart,
Field Agent of the National Association for Virginia, gave an illustrated lec-
ture, when nearly thirty of the audience present were enlisted as members of
the new society. It became the habit, during the migration season, for a party
of members to take walks on Saturday afternoons, for the purpose of studying
the feathered creatures in their native haunts, which was found the only true
way to fully appreciate bird-life. These jaunts afforded keen pleasure.