The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-09-29

II was not n loud song. but very mu.
steal and attractive. and the bird Is
said to sing practically all through the
year. The song OF the wren inter
ested me much. because II 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 did
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 a mocking ventrilo-
quial lay. which reminded me at times
of the less pronounced parts OF our
yellow breasted chats song. The
Gu ,koos 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. and was
much 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 first day | 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 Ginning of the wood
tbrushes, chanting their vespers;
through the still air came the warble
of vireo and tanager: and after night
fall We heard the fight song of an
oven bird from the same belt OF tim
ber. 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
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
Blackuird, Sharp Tailed Finch. Sons
Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow. Busf
e Sparrow. Purple Finch. Baltimore
a Oriole. Cowbunting. Robin. Scarle
. Thrush. Thrasher Cat Bird, Scarle
0 Tanager. Red-Eyed Vireo, Yellow War
4 bier. Black-Throated Green Warbler
/. King Bird, Wood Pewee. Crow. Blu,
| Jay, Cedar Bird. Maryland yellow
!, Throat Chickadee, Black and Whit,
i Creeper. Barn Swallow. White Breasted
$ Swallow, Oven Bird. Thistlefinch. Yes
a perfinch. Indigo Bunting. Towhee
g tGrasshopper Sparrow and Screecl
v Owl
|. sent the companion OF my Englis
s walk John Burroughs Birds an
y Poets" John Burroughs life work
D. beginning to have its full effect 1
h many different lines. When he frs
e. wrote there were few men OF letter
S. in our country who knew nature q
N first hand. Now there are many VIII
h. delight in our birds. who know the
n songs, who keenly love all that belong
~ to out-of.doors life For instance. Ma,
Il, ison Cawein and Ernest McGaffy hay
h. for a number OF years written OF oil
lg woods and fields, OF the birds and II
es flowers, as only those can write WI
Mt Join to love OF nature the gift OF o
ID servation and the gift OF descriptio
Sc Mr.. Cawein is a Kentuckian; and a
ig other Kentuckian. Miss Julia StocktC
lit Dinsmore. in the little volume
at poems which she has Just publishe
ak
a beauty and charm the sights al
wv sounds so dear to all OF us WI
OF know American country life. Mi
Ist Dinsmore knows Kentucky, and d
he gulf coast OF Louisiana. and the gre
!e, plains OF North Dakota; and she kno,
is, also the regions that lie outside
&c. what can be seen with material visiC
lat For years in our family we have h
nd some OF her poems In the scrap bo
ry- cut from newspapers when We KIN,
vi. nothing about her except the init,
lily signed In the verses. Only one W
sees with the eyes OF the spirit as W
,rd as the eyes OF the body could ha
my written the "Threnody." curiously
cal tractive In its simplicity and path
,as with which the little book opens
| a contains many poems that make a 81
pes liar appeal. The writer knows bl
the bird and robin. redbird and field Ia
DIS. and whippoorwill. Just as she kno
Of southern rivers and western plail
she knows rushing winds and runnl
bin waters and the sights and sounds
his lonely places: and moreover.
md knows and almost tells those hidS
dly things OF the heart which never I
but complete utterance.
ng. THEODORE ROOSEVELT