For the Birds: An Uncommon GuideU of Minnesota Press |
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... on the ground or in a low tray is a good choice for juncoes , Mourning Doves , and sometimes grouse . Blue Jays and squirrels are especially fond of peanuts . Bald Eagles winter as far north as Alaska , gathering. Notes January.
... on the ground or in a low tray is a good choice for juncoes , Mourning Doves , and sometimes grouse . Blue Jays and squirrels are especially fond of peanuts . Bald Eagles winter as far north as Alaska , gathering. Notes January.
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... Grouse drums once or twice , ravens croak overhead , Pine Siskins twitter in spruces and sing their zippy little tune . I listen for a downy to drum , but he isn't as quick to forget that it's still winter . Icicles drip under the ...
... Grouse drums once or twice , ravens croak overhead , Pine Siskins twitter in spruces and sing their zippy little tune . I listen for a downy to drum , but he isn't as quick to forget that it's still winter . Icicles drip under the ...
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... Grouse for a year list , but sometimes we need some- thing slower . We cover more ground on cross - country skis , but sometimes we need something quieter . At times like these , a walk in the woods is simply necessary . In the spring ...
... Grouse for a year list , but sometimes we need some- thing slower . We cover more ground on cross - country skis , but sometimes we need something quieter . At times like these , a walk in the woods is simply necessary . In the spring ...
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... Grouse country . The sky is cloudy and black . The sun won't rise until almost eight and there won't be much of a dawn . That's good — grouse gather on the road early but head into the woods at first light . The wind roars — that's not ...
... Grouse country . The sky is cloudy and black . The sun won't rise until almost eight and there won't be much of a dawn . That's good — grouse gather on the road early but head into the woods at first light . The wind roars — that's not ...
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... grouse . But every moment in the company of this pleasant visitor is a moment well spent . Boreal Chickadees are often seen with Black- capped Chickadee flocks , though the browncaps aren't tightly bound to the group . Because of their ...
... grouse . But every moment in the company of this pleasant visitor is a moment well spent . Boreal Chickadees are often seen with Black- capped Chickadee flocks , though the browncaps aren't tightly bound to the group . Because of their ...
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Página 23 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Página 14 - THERE WAS A LITTLE MAN THEEE was a little man and he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead ; He went to the brook, and saw a little duck, And shot it through the head, head, head.
Página 12 - I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Página 17 - Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome. Some keep the Sabbath in surplice; I just wear my wings, And instead of tolling the bell for church, Our little sexton sings. God preaches, - a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along!
Página 14 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.