For the Birds: An Uncommon GuideU of Minnesota Press |
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... Northern Hawk Owls , or lazy afternoons stretched out next to a pair of plastic lawn flamingos , I hope you'll join me a ways . For the Birds won't be complete until you've written in your own account of the journey . ¡ This is the ...
... Northern Hawk Owls , or lazy afternoons stretched out next to a pair of plastic lawn flamingos , I hope you'll join me a ways . For the Birds won't be complete until you've written in your own account of the journey . ¡ This is the ...
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... northern places , a year list won't grow rapidly until April or May , but winter birds are like diamonds — all the more precious for their rarity . 1 The New Year's baby , clad in nothing more than diaper and banner , has no mother to ...
... northern places , a year list won't grow rapidly until April or May , but winter birds are like diamonds — all the more precious for their rarity . 1 The New Year's baby , clad in nothing more than diaper and banner , has no mother to ...
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... Northern Cardinals and Blue Jays begin shivering when the temperature drops below 65 degrees , and smaller birds like nuthatches and chickadees shiver when it's even warmer . A bird is like a well - insulated cabin , but instead of ...
... Northern Cardinals and Blue Jays begin shivering when the temperature drops below 65 degrees , and smaller birds like nuthatches and chickadees shiver when it's even warmer . A bird is like a well - insulated cabin , but instead of ...
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... northern United States , it's usually found at a suet feeder . Birds eat suet as is , but some people prefer to melt it and skim the purified white fat that floats to the top . Other ingredients are often added to this " ren- dered ...
... northern United States , it's usually found at a suet feeder . Birds eat suet as is , but some people prefer to melt it and skim the purified white fat that floats to the top . Other ingredients are often added to this " ren- dered ...
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... northern forests in early winter , but are nomadic like other northern finches . They're shy and unobtrusive at feeders , taking little but sunflower and vanishing the moment more feisty Evening Grosbeaks appear . Pine Grosbeaks also ...
... northern forests in early winter , but are nomadic like other northern finches . They're shy and unobtrusive at feeders , taking little but sunflower and vanishing the moment more feisty Evening Grosbeaks appear . Pine Grosbeaks also ...
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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.