129. Birds and Birds and Birds

A little later—bright weather.—AN UNUSUAL melodiousness, these days, (last of April and first of May) from the blackbirds; indeed all sorts of birds, darting, whistling, hopping or perch’d on trees. Never before have I seen, heard, or been in the midst of, and got so flooded and saturated with them and their performances, as this current month. Such oceans, such successions of them. Let me make a list of those I find here:

Black birds (plenty,)

Meadow-larks (plenty,)

Ring doves,

Cat-birds (plenty,)

Owls,

Cuckoos,

Woodpeckers,

Pond snipes (plenty,)

King-birds,

Cheewinks,

Crows (plenty,)

Quawks,

Wrens,

Ground robins,

Kingfishers,

Ravens,

Quails,

Gray snipes,

Turkey-buzzards,

Eagles,

Hen-hawks,

High-holes,

Yellow birds,

Herons,

Thrushes,

Tits,

Reed birds,

Woodpigeons.

Early came the

Blue birds,

Meadow lark,

Killdeer,

White-bellied swallow,

Plover,

Sandpiper,

Robin,

Wilson’s thrush.

Woodcock,

Flicker.

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