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Frank is shown holding one of the many bird feeders he has built.
Similiar ones can be found on homes all over the Back Mountain area.
THE DALLAS POST — THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1964 - : : TT %
Frank Jackson is home again at
Harveys Lake after a winter spent
with his daughter in Vestal, N. Y.
Some of the birds which he ordin-
arily feeds had become discouraged
and gone to other feeders during
the long hard winter, but they are
now returning.
Frank, the Bird Man of the Lake,
keeps a daily record of birds sight-
ed from his window. All the time he
was in Vestal, he kept records for
the Audubon Society, registering
an astonishing daily total of twen-
ty-four goldfinches and twelve sis-
kins at his feeder:
He suggests that bird- lovers in
this area keep daily records from
year to year, to point up the sad
fact that many birds are disappear-
ing from the scene.
Mr. Jackson, for years and
years, made bird-hpuses and bird-
feeders for the Library Auction,
but he hasn't made a blue-bird
house for sometime. No bluebirds.
Blue-birds, which used to be so
common that they brought forth
little comment, are becoming very
scarce. A pair was sighted at Good-
leigh Farm early in April.
Frank’s treasured yellow lady-
slippers were pushing their pale
green spears .through the moist
earth April 16. He brushed the
sheltering pine needles gently away
with his fingers, opined thatthesun
would do them good, but said they
would need protection again by
nightfall. He had eighty blossoms
one year, and the original bed has
sent up a colony nearby on the
rocky slope.
Frank lovesthemall . .
and the flowers.
i
. the birds
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Frank J ackson Is ‘Bird Man’ of Harveys Lake
Mr. Jackson is at home in his workshop where he has built many
houses and feeders for his feathered friends. He has many lovely
furniture pieces here and repaired treasured antiques.
And he worries about indiscrim-
inate use of insecticides that is-in a
measure responsible for the loss of
the birds and the fish in the streams.
“We'll lose more, ” he says re-
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