The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-08

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was not loud song. but very mn.
Iai ana attractive, and the bird is
~ snug practically all through the
yer. The song of the wren inter.
.s s'eu me much, because 1t was not in
t ieas' ike that of our house wrens,
sut' oh the contrary. like that of our
utter wren. The theme is the same
'ne winter wren's. but the song did
"o' seem TO me to be so brilliantly mn.
iS", us mat OF the tiny singer of the
o' VI woods. The sedge warbler sang
~ 'ne tnlck reeds a mocking yentrilo.
4uiai lay, which reminded me at times
Vi the less pronounced parts of our
'ei,o" breasted chats song The
VI mos cry was singularly attractive
anu musical, far more so than the
io'iihg, many times repeated note Of
our rain-crow
Zen days later, at Sycamore Hill. |
was among my own birds. and was
niuen interested as listened to and
iOoheu at them in remembering the
no'es and actions of the birds had
seen IN England. On the evening of
'he hrst day sat in my rocking
ohair on the broad veranda. looking
across the sound towards the glory of
0ne sunset The thickly erased hill
sue sloped down in front of me to a
oeit Oh forest from which rose the
golden, leisurely Ginning of the wood
lhrushes, chanting their vespers:
through the still air came the warh,e
vi Vifeo and tanager; and after night
iaii we heard the flight song of an
oven blrd from the same belt of tim
oer overhead an oriole sang In the
weeping elm, now and then breaking
MS song to scold like an overgrowp
wren. Song sparrows and cat birds
sang In the shrubbery; one robin had
quilt It's nest over the front, and one
over the back door, and there was a
chlppys nest in the wisteria vine by
Inc porch. During the next "a hours
saw and heard, either right around the
mousse or while walking down to battle
through the woods. the following az
birds:
Little Green Heron. Quail, Red Tail
ed Hawk. Yellow Billed Cuckoo.
Mngfsher, Flicker, Hummingbird.
Swift, Meadow Lark, Red Winged
Blackblrd. Sharp Tailed Finch, Song
Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Bush
Sparrow, Purple Finch, Baltimore
Oriole, Cowbunting, Robin, Scarlet
Thrush. Thrasher, Cat Bird, Scarlet
Tanager, Red-Eyed Vireo, Yellow War
bier, Black'Throated Green Warbler.
King Bird, Wood Pewee, Grow. Blue
Jay, Cedar Bird, Maryland Yellow
Throat, Chickadee, Black and White
Creeper, Barn Swallow, White Breasted
Swallow, Oven Bird, Thistlefinch, Yes.
perfinch, Indigo Bunting, Towhee,
Grasshopper Sparrow and Screech
Owl.
sent the companion of my English
walk John Burroughs Birds and
Poets" John Burroughs life work is
beginning to have it's full effect In
many different lines. When he first
wrote there were few men of letters
in our country who knew nature at
first hand. Now there are many who
delight in our birds, who know their
songs, who keenly love all that belongs
TO out-of-doors life. For instance, Mad.
ison Cawein and Ernest McGaffy have
for a number of years written of our
woods and fields, of the birds and the
flowers, as only those can write who
Join to love of nature the gift of OBJ
and the gift of description.
Mr. Cawein is Kentuckian; and an.
other Kentuckian, Miss Julia Stockton
Dinsmore in the little volume of
poems which she has just published.
includes many which describe with
beauty and charm the sights and
sounds so dear to all of us who
know American country life. Miss
Dinsmore knows Kentucky, and the
gulf coast of Louisiana, and the great
plains of North Dakota; and she knows
also the regions that lie outside OF
what can be seen with material vision.
For years in our family we have had
some of her poems in the scrap book
cut from newspapers when we knew
nothing about her except the initials
signed in the verses. Only one who
sees with the eyes of the spirit as well
as the eyes of the body could have
written the "Threnody," curiously at
tractive in its simplicity and pathos,
with which the little book opens. II
contains many poems that make sim
liar appeal The writer knows blue
bird and robin. redbird and field lark
and whippoorwill just as she knows
southern rivers and western plains;
she knows rushing winds and running
waters and the sights and sounds of
onely places; and moreover, she
knows and almost tells those hidden
.hings of the heart which never find |
complete utterance.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT