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Updated: June 2, 2025
The bobolink, the veery, or Wilson's thrush, the red thrush, and the golden robin, are silent after the middle of July; the wood-thrush, the cat-bird, and the common robin, not until a month later; but the song-sparrow alone continues to sing throughout the summer.
Every singing bird was in full voice; thrush and vireo, robin, meadow lark, song-sparrow and catbird were singing as birds sing but once in the whole year; when the mating season is at its height and the long migratory flight northwards is forgotten in the supreme instinctive joy of the ever-new miracle of procreation. When he came to The Bow he went directly to the paddock gate.
The song-sparrow, and the mocking-bird, and the dove, and the crested wren, and the spotted lynx, and the gorgeous woodpecker, and the fish with shining scales, and all the other beautiful creatures that have since lived, and now live, were then upon the earth, even in greater numbers, and possessed of greater beauty than now; but woman, more beautiful than any, the most glorious thing that walks the earth, lived not then.
Ice has no sooner disappeared than we desire it. There is a smile, if one may say so, in the blue sky, and there is softness in the south wind. The song-sparrow is singing in the apple-tree. Another bird-note is heard, two long, musical whistles, liquid but metallic.
In the summer you may find their nests in the brush-heaps near the edge of the forest. They sing a soft, low song." "Nurse, I heard a bird singing yesterday when I was in the garden; a little, plain, brown bird, nurse." "It was a song-sparrow, Lady Mary. This cheerful little bird comes with the snow-birds, often before the robin." "Oh, nurse, the robin!
I can't even chuck nothin' overboard but I hear it." "Hear what?" The keen anguish expressed in his voice had alarmed me. "That song-sparrow did ye hear it? I tell ye this thing'll drive me crazy. I tell ye I can't stand it I can't stand it." And he turned his head and covered his face with his sleeve. The outburst and gesture only intensified my anxiety. Was Jim's mind giving away?
The pines growing down to the water's edge will show newly as in the glare of a conflagration; and as he floats under the willows with his light, the song-sparrow will often wake on her perch, and sing that strain at midnight, which she had meditated for the morning.
I have noted but two days' difference in the coming of the song-sparrow between a very early and a very backward spring. This very year I saw the linnets at work thatching, just before a snow-storm which covered the ground several inches deep for a number of days. They struck work and left us for a while, no doubt in search of food.
Such a well-kept, clean world of open country it looked to Patsy as her eye followed the road before her, on to the greening meadows and wooded slopes, that her heart joined the chorus of song-sparrow and meadow-lark, who sang from the sheer gladness of being a live part of it all. She sighed, not knowing it. "Faith! I'm wishing 'twas more nor seven miles to Arden.
Others, again, linger on from the autumn, and sometimes through the winter, as the snow-bird, song-sparrow, tree-sparrow.
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