. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Photo by Frank ]\I. Chapman A JJJKD IX Tllf; 11-VXD see a bird in every l)usli ami find the heavens their pathwav. ( )nc nmment we may admire their beauty of phima,y-e, the next mar\-el at the ease and grace with which they dash by us or circle high overhead. But birds will appeal to tis most strongly through their songs. "When your ears are attuned to the music of birds, your world will be transformed. Birds' songs are the most eloquent of Nature's voices: the gay carol of the grosbeak in the morning; the dreann' midda}'
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Photo by Frank ]\I. Chapman A JJJKD IX Tllf; 11-VXD see a bird in every l)usli ami find the heavens their pathwav. ( )nc nmment we may admire their beauty of phima,y-e, the next mar\-el at the ease and grace with which they dash by us or circle high overhead. But birds will appeal to tis most strongly through their songs. "When your ears are attuned to the music of birds, your world will be transformed. Birds' songs are the most eloquent of Nature's voices: the gay carol of the grosbeak in the morning; the dreann' midda}' call of the pewee: the vesper hymn of the thrush : the clanging of geese in the si)ringtime : the farewell of the bluebird in the fallâhow clearh- each one expresses the sentiment of tlie hour or season ! I' Having learned a birrl's language, }'0U experience an increased feeling of com- radeship with it. ^'ou ma_\- c^'en share its emotions as vou learn the significance of its notes. Xo one can listen to the song of the mocking-bird without being in some way affected ; but in how many hearts does the tiiik of the night-flying bobolink find a response? I ne^'er hear it without wishing the brave little trav'- eler godspeed on his long journey. As time ])asses you will find that the songs of birds bring a constantly increas- ing pleasure. This is the result of asso- ciation. The places and peo|jle that make our W'lrliJ are every changing: the jircs- ent slips from us with growing rapidit)-; but the birds are e^'er with us. The robin singing so cheerily outside ni}^ window sings not for himself alimc, l:)ut fi ir hundreds of robins I have known at other times and places. Idis song re- calls a March evening, warm with the ])romise of spring; May mornings, when all the world seemed to ring with the \'oices of birds ; June days, when cherries were ripening; the winter sunlit forests of Florida and even the sn(jw-capped summit of glorious Popocatepetl. And so it is
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