Abstract
In 1938 a trial feed patch for songbirds was prepared at Pleasant Valley Bird and Wildflower Sanctuary in Lenox, Massachusetts, by tilling a 1l acre plot of old field and sowing it with a mixture of selected seeds. Partially successful in 1938, the experiment was repeated-with minor modifications and improved results-by reseeding the same area in 1939 and 1940. The venture had two motives: (1) To improve feeding conditions for the summer resident and migrant fringillids already common on the Sanctuary, and (2) to attract a number of seed-eating birds which, for reasons not altogether clear, have always been absent or scarce. The feed patch functioned admirably in meeting the first need, but failed in the second.
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