. Nestlings of forest and marsh . s sitting on afence wire listening to the efforts of an am-bitious youngster who was balancing upon aweed stalk below. S1 A MINSTREL OF THE MARSHES On a bulrush stalk a blackbird swung All in the sun and the sunshine weather, Teetered and scolded there as he hung Oer the maze of the swamp-woofs tangled tether ; A black bass leaped for a dragon-fly And struck the spray from the sleeping water, While airily, eerily, there on high Sang the blackbird pert from his teeter-totter. Anonymous. AMONG the glories of a certain Wis-consin marsh are hundreds of thesebeauti
. Nestlings of forest and marsh . s sitting on afence wire listening to the efforts of an am-bitious youngster who was balancing upon aweed stalk below. S1 A MINSTREL OF THE MARSHES On a bulrush stalk a blackbird swung All in the sun and the sunshine weather, Teetered and scolded there as he hung Oer the maze of the swamp-woofs tangled tether ; A black bass leaped for a dragon-fly And struck the spray from the sleeping water, While airily, eerily, there on high Sang the blackbird pert from his teeter-totter. Anonymous. AMONG the glories of a certain Wis-consin marsh are hundreds of thesebeautiful birds. To me their music has apeculiar banjo-like quality unlike that of anyother bird. Heard in the silence of acresof wild rice, there is something very weirdand attractive in the sound. It is richer,fuller, and clearer than the song of the red-wings. The yellow-head of the photograph was a magnificent fellow of glossy black plumage, except for the rich gold on his head, throat, and chest, and his lemon epaulets. Not all 52. A MINSTREL OF THE MARSHES the yellow-heads have the color in theirwings, and this with his marked individualitysingled him out from the crowd. He satswaying and swinging on the rushes, not a
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