Bird Club, and owes its existence largely to the intelligence and
enthusiasm of Ernest H. Baynes, bird-lover and lecturer, who lives
there. The entire community takes an interest in its maintenance,
{225} and there birds are fed and nesting places provided. It is in
the widest sense a "community sanctuary." There are now a number of
these cooeperative bird havens established and cared for in practically
the same way. One is in Cincinnati, another in Ithaca, New York, and
still another at Greenwich, Connecticut.

_Birdcraft Sanctuary._--The best equipped of this class of community
bird refuges, as distinguished from private estates, or Audubon
Society, State, or Federal bird reservations, is Birdcraft Sanctuary in
Fairfield, Connecticut, a tract of ten acres presented to the
Connecticut Audubon Society in June, 1914. Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright,
President of the Connecticut Society, has written that in the creation
of this sanctuary it was decided that certain requirements were
necessary:

"A cat-proof fence to surround the entire place. That it may not look
aggressive, it should be set well inside the picturesque old wall.
Stone gateposts and a rustic gate at the entrance on the {226} highway.
A bungalow for the caretaker, wherein there shall be a room for the
meetings of the Society's Executive Committee and Board. A tool and
workshop of corresponding style. Several rustic shelters and many
seats.

"The assembling of the various springs into a pond, so designed as to
make an island of a place where the Redwings nest.

"Trails to be cut through the brush and the turf grass in a charming
bit of old orchard on the hilltop, to be restored for the benefit of
worm-pulling Robins.

"Several stone basins to be constructed for birdbaths, houses to be put
up of all sorts, from Wren boxes, Von Berlepsch model. Flicker and Owl
boxes, to a Martin hotel; and, lastly, the supplementing of the natural
growth by planting pines, spruces, and hemlocks for windbreaks, and
mountain ashes, mulberries, sweet cherries, flowering shrubs and vines
for berries and Hummingbird honey."

Not only were all these things done, but there has {227} been built and
equipped a small museum of Natural History, unique in its good taste
and usefulness.

_Cemeteries as Bird Sanctuaries._--The interest in the subject of bird
sanctuaries is growing every day; in fact, all America is now planning
new homes for her birds--homes where they may live