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Identifier: birdlore18nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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did Mother Nature foldHer poet, whispering that of wild and sweetInto his ear—the state-affairs of birds,The lore of dawn and sunset, what the windSaid in the tree-tops—fine, unfathomed thingsHenceforth to turn to music in his brain:x\ various music, now like notes of flutesAnd now like blasts of trumpets blown in wars. —Excerpt from Elmwood.Note: These brief quotations from Thomas Bailey Aldrich express—in delicateimagery and with a deep sense of the meaning of Nature—what many who come intoreal contact with the outside world feel but cannot describe. Even though this poetmay not have known that the Jay is a permanent resident, he had observed it and hadalso found a Robin lingering to brave a New England winter; he had felt the spell ofthe Ice King from the North as well as the enfolding care of the great Earth Mother;the wind and birds and sun and the winter silences all spoke to him, in words which itwas his gift to pass on to us in the music of poetry.—A. H. W.) (380)
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382 Bird-Lore A Christmas Tree for the Birds THE Center Bird Club of tiie Junior Audubon Class of Pepperell, Mass.,is one of four bird clubs organized in the spring of 1915 for the children,in difYerent parts of the town. It consists of thirty members, and meetsonce a month. The Audubon leaflets have been given out each month andthe children have done good work in coloring them, and have been interestedin learning about each bird described. Bird walks have been taken in summer,nesting-, food- and shelter-boxes put up, and all the children pledged to pro-tect the birds in every possible way. During the Christmas holidays the children trimmed a tree for the birdson the lawn at Highledge (the home of one of the teachers). The tree lookedvery gay when finished, garlanded with strings of popcorn and cranberriesand hung with red apples, baskets of cracked nuts and boxes of seed, toppedoff with a cheery little Santa Claus bearing a tiny flag that floated merrily inthe wind. The feathered gue

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