Birds

Many birds ar useful to us. When we stone animals or birds, or shoot at them with sling shots, we are often harming true friends. Birds are very seldom killed right away in this manner. They suffer great pain from the bruises and broken wings caused by stones, and almost always starve to death as a result. We have too few birds in the Philippines at it is. We should try to encourage them, instead of fright-pretty in a garden, nothing gives a countryside life and beauty so much as a variety of birds flying about without fear of being hurt.
One of the first things noticed by foreigners coming to our country is the lack of birds. In America the gardens are laive with red-breasted robins and sweetly singing thrushes that are almost tame. Children give them bread crumbs and put out pans of water for bird baths. Let us encouraged birds and make them feel that we are their friends.