The Green Forest tribune., 1910-08-26


 It was not a loud song, but very mu- s1cal and attractive, and the bird is said to sing practically all through the year. The song of the wren inter- ested me much, because it was not in the least like that of our house wrens, but, on the contrary, like that of our winter wren. The theme is the same as the winter wren's, but the song di3 not seem to me to be so brilliantly mu- sical as that of the tiny singer of the north woods. The sedge warbler sang in the thick reeds a mocking ventrilo- quial lay, which reminded me at times or the less pronounced parts of our yellow breasted chats song. The cuckoo'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 Sagamore Hill. I was among my own birds, and was much interested as I listened to and looked at them in remembering the notes and actions of the birds I had seen in England. On the evening of the first day I sat in my rocking chair on the broad veranda, looking across the sound towards the glory of the sunset. The thickly grassed hill side sloped down in front of me to belt of forest from which rose the golden, leisurely chiming of the wood thrushes, chanting their vespers; through the still air came the warble of y1reo and tanager; and after night fail We heard the flight song of an oven bird from the same belt of tim Der. Overhead an oriole sang in the weeping elm, now and then breaking his song to scold like an overgrown wren. Song sparrows and cat birds sang in the shrubbery; one robin had built it's nest over the front, and one over the back door, and there was a chippy's nest in the wisteria vine by the porch. During the next "A hours l saw and heard, either right around the house or while walking down to bathe through the woods, the following 42 birds:
 Little Green Heron, Quail, Red Tail ed Hawk, Yellow Billed Cuckoo, Kingfsher, Flicker, Hummingbird, Swift, Meadow Lark, Red Winged BlackDlrd Sharp Tailed Finch, Song Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Bush Sparrow, Purple Finch, Baltimore Oriole, Cowbunting, Robin, Scarlet Thrush. Thrasher, Cat Bird, Scarlet Tanager, RedEyed Vireo, Yellow War bier, Black-Throated Green Warbler. King Bird, Wood Pewee, Crow, 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
 l sent the companion of my English walk John Burroughs Birds and Poets" John Burroughs life work is beginning to have its full effect fin 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 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 ob servation and the gift of description MT 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 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 it's simplicity and pathos, with which the little book opens. It 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 lonely places; and moreover, she knows and almost tells those hidden things of the heart which never find complete utterance.
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT
 
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