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... move through woods and backyards and feeding stations on a fairly regular route , and neither rain nor snow nor ... moves on , but it'll be back . You can depend on it . The best feeder fare is sunflower seed , for both its nutritional ...
... move through woods and backyards and feeding stations on a fairly regular route , and neither rain nor snow nor ... moves on , but it'll be back . You can depend on it . The best feeder fare is sunflower seed , for both its nutritional ...
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... move with the sun throughout the day . When I hold one up to the window to see snow , something most nighthawks never hope to see , he placidly gazes at it the same way that he studies TV or watches my cat across the room . The Common ...
... move with the sun throughout the day . When I hold one up to the window to see snow , something most nighthawks never hope to see , he placidly gazes at it the same way that he studies TV or watches my cat across the room . The Common ...
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... move south in great numbers . Red - breasted Nuthatches sometimes chip tiny pieces of mortar from brick buildings as with Northern Finches and other seed- eating birds , their diet may possibly be deficient in some minerals . Some ...
... move south in great numbers . Red - breasted Nuthatches sometimes chip tiny pieces of mortar from brick buildings as with Northern Finches and other seed- eating birds , their diet may possibly be deficient in some minerals . Some ...
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... moves on . I keep walking . A Great Horned Owl , eyes half - closed , watches from a spruce ; I almost miss it . Any owl is a magical gift . A raven flies over , and in another half mile a Pileated Woodpecker flies by . It's too far ...
... moves on . I keep walking . A Great Horned Owl , eyes half - closed , watches from a spruce ; I almost miss it . Any owl is a magical gift . A raven flies over , and in another half mile a Pileated Woodpecker flies by . It's too far ...
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... moves on to feeders and hard- woods . In spring and fall , boreals are more likely to associate with Golden- crowned Kinglets than with Black - capped Chickadees . In some winters , large numbers of Boreal Chicka- dees migrate south ...
... moves on to feeders and hard- woods . In spring and fall , boreals are more likely to associate with Golden- crowned Kinglets than with Black - capped Chickadees . In some winters , large numbers of Boreal Chicka- dees migrate south ...
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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.