For the Birds: An Uncommon GuideU of Minnesota Press |
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... Winter Wren's delicate song threads Birds have no interest in money they're into real estate . July May June In swooping back and forth to catch flying insects , a Barn Swallow's odometer clocks 100,000 miles every five - and - a - half ...
... Winter Wren's delicate song threads Birds have no interest in money they're into real estate . July May June In swooping back and forth to catch flying insects , a Barn Swallow's odometer clocks 100,000 miles every five - and - a - half ...
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... 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 change it or feed it or rock it to sleep . It doesn't even have a propped ...
... 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 change it or feed it or rock it to sleep . It doesn't even have a propped ...
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... winter . Like mail carriers , they move through woods and backyards and feeding stations on a fairly regular route , and neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail will keep them from their appointed rounds . Unlike mail carriers , they ...
... winter . Like mail carriers , they move through woods and backyards and feeding stations on a fairly regular route , and neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail will keep them from their appointed rounds . Unlike mail carriers , they ...
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... winter a Bald Eagle visited a bird feeder near Lake Superior every morn- ing to eat a hard - boiled egg . It made for an enviable entry on a bird feeder list , and scared away squirrels to boot . 3 Bald Eagles are earthbound in winter ...
... winter a Bald Eagle visited a bird feeder near Lake Superior every morn- ing to eat a hard - boiled egg . It made for an enviable entry on a bird feeder list , and scared away squirrels to boot . 3 Bald Eagles are earthbound in winter ...
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... winter . White - throated Sparrows average about 1,525 feathers in October , and well over 2,500 in February . " Feather light " isn't an exaggeration . This huge number of body feathers makes up less than 10 percent of the white ...
... winter . White - throated Sparrows average about 1,525 feathers in October , and well over 2,500 in February . " Feather light " isn't an exaggeration . This huge number of body feathers makes up less than 10 percent of the white ...
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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.