Formed on behalf of birds, a little society called the
B.B.B. is at the beginning of a successful career. It was started, under the encouragement of the Society for the Protection of Birds by the present secretary, Miss Richenda Bland, at Inglethorpe Manor, Wisbech, Cambridge, and christened Birds Birthday Band. The members, who now number over a hundred, receive a card on their birthday, and send whatever subscription they may have promised, whether ls. or £1. The money can be earmarked for any special purpose (such as for watchers at the Sanctuaries). If not it goes to the general purposes of the R.S.P.B. On the form of membership sent by Miss Bland the donation is described as a thanksgiving for the sights and sounds of birds ; but in so famous a fruit-growing area as Wisbech the economic value of thesmall bird is another, if less romantic or aesthetic
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