The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-26

ear The song of the wren inter Al
sted me much, because it was hoV III ca
he least like that of our house Wrehs, n
2ut, on the contrary, like that OF our
winter wren The theme is the same 81
as the winter wren's, but the song ulo
not seem to me to be so brilliantly mu-
steal as that of the tiny singer OF the
north woods. The sedge warbler sang
in the thick reeds hooking Ventrllo'
ouial Law, which reminded me at times
of the less pronounced parts OF our
yellow breasted chats song. Inc
cu,koo's cry was singularly attractive
and musical, far more so than the
rolling, many times repeated, note OF
our rain-CroW.
Ten days later, at Sycamore Hill,
was among my own birds, ana was
much interested as listened 10 anu
looked at them in remembering the
notes and actions of the birds | hao
seen in England. On the evening u
the first day | sat in my rocking
chair on the broad veranda, loohlns
across the sound towards the glory Oh
the sunset. The thickly grassed hlll-
side sloped down in front OF me 10 d
,, belt of forest from which rose the
: golden, leisurely Ginning of the Woou
4 thrushes, chanting their Vespels'
:. through the still air came the "aIoio
, Of vireo and tanager; and after night
=, fall we heard the fight song OF an
- oven bird from the same belt OF unA
- her Overhead an oriole sang IN the
- veeping elm, now and then breaking
~ his song to scold like an overgro"l
wren. Song sparrows and cat piru
sang in the shrubbery; one roOm na'
~ huiIt it's nest over the front, ana Oh
~ over the back door, and there was
o chinnv's nest in the wisteria vine 0
~ the porch. During the next "A hours
M saw and heard, either right around u
"p' house or while walking down to pau
w. through the woods, the toiio"lhs
Tor. birds:
d. Ijtt,e Green Heron, Quail, Red Ia
e pt ed Hawk, Yellow Billed Cuck'
Do Kingfsher. Flicker. Hummlngpi'
aht swift, Meadow Lark, Red wing
81. 81 BTackblrd, Sharp Tailed Flncn' %
"D'' snarrow, Chipping Sparrow bV
Snarrow, Purple Finch, Baltlm'
INC Oriole Cowbunting, Robin, Scar
la, nau Thrush, Thrasher, Cat Bird, scal
Du ur ranger. Red-Eyed Vireo, Yellow "
also b1nr black Throated Green WARP
,s"h King Bird, Wood Pewee' Crow, I
. uo", law Cedar Bird, Maryland Iel
nv Throat Chickadee, Black ana "
lsei0' Creener, Barn Swallow, White Brea
Dea" swallow, oven Bird, Thistletinch'
,D.i perfnch, Indigo Bunting, 10"
oh we Grasshopper Sparrow anu OIL
overy Owl.
lie loi- rro1k Iohn Burroughs Birds
, poets" John Burroughs lie wo
hins ~ beginning to have It's full ehec
'hu ! - MANY different lines. When Ne
= WIZ wrote there were few men OF Il
lin"s IN our country who knew na'ui
lawns snst hand Now there are man!
ives ~ delight in our birds, who know
+e iasn songs, who keenly love all tnat p'
resenl ~ ort.of-doors life. For instance
many ,oon cawein and Ernest McGaffS
musical, lson 0a"o S-h,n ~ wears written
thrush. for d lui a colds of the birds a
among aowars as only those can WIFI
Sc notes ioin 70 love of nature the GIT
in point JOIN " ,d tho gift of descl
wood serVation a. Xentuckian; al
e praise o 9TH Kentuckian, Miss Julla 81
us song n,nsmore, in the little Volu,
nermit noems which she has just pu
ink tna' ino,ndes many which describe
Il justice heauty and charm the s'sn'
was sounds so dear to all Oh
dea now Lnow American country hle
se ole VI Dinsuore knows kentuchy'
ans 'uss gnlf coast of Louisiana anu u
Nneh NC e,ains of North Dakota; anu 81
ne MERE p a,so the regions that lie gu.
ne maSis' mbot can be seen with ma'eii !,
LEI u le' ~ wears In our family we
niger ,nas some of her poems in the 80,
Ensianu out from newspapers "nen =,
e country cut iiol oho,t her except tn
ucn IN ev- sianed in the verses. oniy
u d le''ii' saes with the eyes OF the spil
s So the eyes Of the body COZ
we heaiu r,r,tten the "Threnody, oul
To my ma in its simplicity an
re musical trac'ivI 18th the little book
e. 1t was ~ Sautaips many poems that n, m
so small a CONTAINS The writer kr
nity IT 04 tes bird and robin, redeira bro anu
IS OF the o ond whippoorwill, just as
,ther birds, anu WIZ n,vers and wester
ted bit of soutnein rushing winds al
lrpassed. sue nv AVID the sights and
IS the robin Wateie .,oces and more
know TINS , ,,nows and almost tells IN
!, books, and knows a a. the heart which
4 as friendly Things ~ ,tterance.
ID to be, but colnpAe THEODORE ROO
rell he sang.
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arm. rhev say there