feather-snow

Updated: May 3, 2025

And she leads a life so gay and exciting that she never finds time to be sad, even over the disappointment of her dear friend, poor little Tourtourelle. Once upon a time, our friend Blackbird, who comes first of the feathered brothers in the spring, was not black at all. No, indeed; he was white white as feather-snow new fallen in the meadow.

Abbie Farwell Brown - The Curious Book of Birds