. Birds through the years . On going out the follow-ing morning I was greeted by a flood of song, limited invariety, to be sure, but so abundant in volume as quite tostartle one after the silence of the evening before. SongSparrows in companies of a dozen or more were heard inall directions; Bluebirds warbled merrily from fence andtelephone posts ; every maple and elm had its Robin, sing-ing as though his heart bubbled over with joy. Redwings, in close-flying bands, came hourly, resting fora time in the tall elms, where they cackled and chattered ingreat glee ; from the fields the Meadow Larks
. Birds through the years . On going out the follow-ing morning I was greeted by a flood of song, limited invariety, to be sure, but so abundant in volume as quite tostartle one after the silence of the evening before. SongSparrows in companies of a dozen or more were heard inall directions; Bluebirds warbled merrily from fence andtelephone posts ; every maple and elm had its Robin, sing-ing as though his heart bubbled over with joy. Redwings, in close-flying bands, came hourly, resting fora time in the tall elms, where they cackled and chattered ingreat glee ; from the fields the Meadow Larks cheerilywhistled their vernal greeting, and in the distant woods thereedy notes of the Blue Jay mingled with the shrill cryof the Marsh Hawk. It was like the first burst from the MIGRATION 45 orchestra after the prehminary timing of the nearly every day brought its new arrival ; thechorus steadily swelled, until with the advent of June itwas full, and our summer residents settled down to Ikl^,
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