bird-waves

Updated: February 15, 2026

Year by year this vast procession goes on in the air, back and forth, night and day, like the ceaseless ebb and flow of the tides at sea. Bird-waves flow on forever, in their appointed times, and none of Nature's aspects are more regular or more unfailing. It almost seems, boys, as if birds made the seasons as if winter in the Middle and Northern States might be called the 'songless season."

Elliott Coues - Citizen Bird : Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners