Bird lore - Project Puffin

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Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 477
Vassar Wake-Robin Club.—Our Club was first organized about 1890
for the purpose of nature-study. It was reorganized in igi6 with the additional
purpose of active care and protection of birds. In January, 1916, we became
affiliated with the National Association of Audubon Societies. As efforts in
this direction, we fed the birds on the Vassar campus last winter, and purchased
a number of Von Berlepsch nesting-boxes. Every spring we pay a visit to
John Burroughs at 'Slabsides,' and we have informal walks for bird-study
frequently during the college year. Anne H. Whiting, President.
Vermilion (S. D.) Audubon Society.—Our Society was formed March
28, 1916, and now has thirteen active members and 137 junior members. Bird-
talks have been given by members of the Society, bird-walks have been taken,
and reports made. In April a bird-house contest was held, when thirty-five
houses were submitted and three prizes given. A movement is now on foot to
induce the Vermilion city council to enact an adequate ordinance permitting
the destruction of song-bird enemies within the city limits.— (Mrs.) Q. C.
Kellogg, Secretary.
Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs.— The State Federa-
tion of Washington gave a place on its annual program to an address on birds,
and an educational exhibit of bird-material was maintained during its
sessions. The legislation affecting birds in which we have been most deeply
interested is an act setting apart a portion of our State's game-fund for
protective educational work. This we hope will come before the Legislature at
its next session.
Through the cooperation of the National Audubon Society in giving us a
field-worker for a time last year, we have been able to accomplish so much of
progress in bird-welfare that our Society is constantly in receipt of requests
from women's clubs in other states for printed matter outlining our methods of
work. Some of our auxiliaries declared their accomplishments in bird-protection
to be the most worth-while of anything they have done during the year. Our
zeal in this direction has hastened the organization of local bird clubs in many
locaHties, and has quickened the interest and directed the attention of whole
communities to the need of bird-conservation. We feel that, on account of the
similarity of the aims and purposes of our organization to those of the National
Audubon Society, there is a peculiar fitness in being affiliated with it, as we are,
in its task.— (Mrs.) Ira D. Cardiff, Corresponding Secretary.
Watertown (N. Y.) Bird Club.—Our Club was organized in January,
191 5, after an illustrated lecture by Mr. Baynes. We began with thirty charter
members, many of them previously members of a sportsmen's club, and of a
bird-lover's circle. Edmund J. Sawyer, artist, author, and ornithologist, became
the first president, and has since been made honorary president. In March,