The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-08-25
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English
Singing Birds

i" Clheodore Roosevelt is Contributing
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IL was not loud song. but very mu.
sicai and attractive. and the bird is
Saiu 10 sing practically all through the
year The song of the wren inter.
ested me much, because II was not In
,ne least like that of our house wrens.
ou'' OH the contrary. like that of our
WINTER wren The theme Is the same
"s 'ne winter wren's, but the song did
no' seem TO me to be so brilliantly mu.
S'eai as that Of the tiny singer of the
horth woods The sedge warbler sang
III tne thick reeds a hooking ventrilo-
quiai lay, which reminded me at times
Vi the less pronounced parts Of our
seiloW breasted chats song. The
Gu ,koos cry was singularly attractive
ana musical, far more so than the
rolling, many times repeated. note of
our rain-crow.
Ten days later, at Sycamore Hill, I
was among my own birds, and was
lhuch interested as | listened to and
looked at them in remembering the
notes and actions OF the birds had
seen In England, On the evening OF
the hrs1 day | sat In nv rocking
chair on the broad veranda, looking
across the sound towards the glory Of
tne sunset The thickly grassed hill.
size sloped down In front of me to a
belt of forest from which rose the
golden, leisurely Ginning of the wood
thrushes. chanting their vespers;
through the still air came the MARBLE
OF vireo and tanager: and after night.
faii 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
MS song to scold like an overgrown
wren. Song sparrows and cat birds
sang In the shrubbery; one robin had
built its nest over the front, and one
over the back door, and there was a
chippy nest in the wisteria vine by
the porch. During the next "a hours |
saw and heard, either right around the
house or while walking down to battle
through the woods. the following AZ
birds:
Little Green Heron, Quail. Red Tail.
ed Hawk, Yellow Billed Cuckoo
kingfisher, Flicker, Hummingbird
Swift, Meadow Lark, Red Winged
Blackpird. Sharp Tailed Finch, Song
Sparrow. Chipping Sparrow, Bush
Sparrow. Purple Finch. Baltimore
oriole, Cowbunting, Robin, Scarle,
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 its full effect In
many different lines. When he first
wrote there were few men of letter.
in our country who knew nature al
first hand. Now there are many who
delight In our birds, who know theil
songs, who keenly love all that belongs
TO out-of-doors life. For instance, Mad
for a number of years written of oul
woods and fields, of the birds and tb'
flowers, as only those can write wht
join to love of nature the gift of OBJ
servation and the gift of description
Mr.. Cawein is a Kentuckian; and an
other Kentuckian, Miss Julia Stockton
Dinsmore in the little volume o
poems which she has just published
includes many which describe will
beauty and charm the sights ant
sounds so dear to all of US whit
know American country life. Mis-
Dinsmore knows Kentucky, and tn,
gulf coast of Louisiana, and the grea
Mains of North Dakota; and she know
also the regions that lie outside O
what can be seen with material vision
For years in our family we have hat
some of her poems In the scrap bool
cut from newspapers when we kne'
nothing about her except the initial
signed In the verses. Only one VIII
sees with the eyes of the spirit as wei
as the eyes of the body could hav
written the "Threnody," curiously al
tractive in its simplicity and pathof
with which the little book opens.
contains many poems that make sin
liar appeal The writer knows blue
bird and robin, redbird and field lar
and wbippoorwill, just AS she know
! southern rivers and western plains
abe knows rushing winds and runnin
waters and the sights and sounds c
lonely places; and moreover. sh
/ knows and almost tells those hide
, things of the heart which never fin
I complete utterance.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT