Show a I 1 IN the tb hady body woodland etry very trem tre a town irr or the th birds bird are r building siou louses nent neat and nd brown brust om leafy leaff bou bouru ut U just jirl or or us tr ra la la tra tr 1 or tb the happy chorus tr ra ia U ia I 1 tra lal ta in th the oak tr trees agals all the th say ry kr r atch each aucy saucy birdie bard anti ants his bla own awit wt sweat wy way J brust 1 orn om lr leafy bough oto to wn there in the th eil bldr tl dr drs reseed in gold fold anil and black ilow how birde are rn calling that hat irra really back orus at ar tile glad lad song on sparrow on n the th hitzel 11 abray lenir all ail hla his neighbors neigh boris U a is home botn to stay brux bin bir in the elm am trees rt all 11 in bright red vasta eppins bits of anusic build ther downy nests orus 4 the th bonnia bluebird rom the tb arple tree ago from morn to sunrise IIo mtr the th place for or ans n orus old O school song bont ly y ELMO WATSON i N NID NEARLY ABLY every state in the union the governor has already issued a proclamation la like this ahlas that we possess great wealth in our trees and birds Is a matter of common knowledge but this wealth like other blessings which we on cn not jal always ways fully appreciated and ending now therefore governor of the of f in accordance with visions of the do here friday april and october of the present na a AND BIRD DAYS which days suitable exercises 0 held to accentuate und and elpha a importance of tho the propagation es s shrubs and vineland vines vine sand and the ration of ofir our native bird life till all over the land some same the date varies ta in different Terent dIf this athla month will find the school ell n singing just juat such songs as litch heads this article or other taking akine part in sul nl table exer so bo far as the children are ar trued led these exercises may or may accentuate and emphasize the tance ince of the propagation of shrubs and vines and the atlon of our native bird but ut they enter into them with because cause tamy offer rn an opportunity ross tho the kinship which all of 1 i with those elen lenta Jents in nature ire are not hedged in and restricted Z X isoo BOBOLINK 1 the be conventions and of civilized human info 8 true rue nature lover not the 3 nature grand 1 person but th the whom lorn the beauties ben of nature a ilent rather than vocal no 10 governors to him im aware of arbor and bird to ro him every april day to Is bird A day ond and the beat proclamation of thai filet la is tho the ecstasy of song which greets him on in an april morning for this Is eminently preeminently pre pro the th month of birds an it to the month of wild lowers 0 some ot of our birds on am with us tu tho year round A walk through the woods in winter when the bars bare branches of the trees and tho the abreace of green vegetation tells tella us ua that moth er nature Is sleeping will reveal to us an astonishingly largo number of birdi it if wo we take the trouble to make a list of the different species we see there are the bob white and ruffled grouse the various species of hawks and owls the crow the horned lark several species of sparrows fin cinches finches ches the cedar waxwing the chickadee and the nuthatch all listed hated by most moat df art Verma permanent neut reald flIts not to mention a varied assortment of winter the plumage of most of them Is drab and dull in keeping with tho the spirit of winter but it lo in relieved by ucb such flashes of color as a the bright blue of the blue jay and the brilliance of the car cardinals dinnis scarlet As an winter wanes and the first pro premonitions ions of the approaching spring are felt we become aware odthe of the fact that our bird population will soon boon be ba increased those premonitions corny come r HOUSE WREN as we hear bear the arat band of wild geese go honking over us u some aonie night late in february or early in march Be member that line from Hip kipling lings tho the feet of the young men who hath both lain alono alone to hour hear the wild goose cryb cry T and the retrain refrain of that poem its it nut must goco go 0 o co so KO co aay a ay from horal on the other old ld the th world hes h overdue bond your rod road in clear before you when the old bering fret corom comes oer you and add the nod gods call for youl roul if thet that cry heard beard in the night stirs tho the gypsy train strain in n our blood it in only accentuated when aro wo see eo in the sky in tho the daytime the long V shaped group of honkers or bear the whistle of wings as a lock flock of wild ducks sweep over our henda heads these theao are the vanguard of tim tho migrating feathered hordes which we know will soon eoon be on their way north then we begin to watch tor for the first arst robin and the first bluebird of course in some soine of ilia th state which really are northern states both the robin and the bluebird are permanent residents resident q but to most people these two are the true harbingers of spring and after that the deluge I 1 every april day dav Is bird dayl day I 1 and civery day the he birds proclaim that spring to Is really here the nicker flicker some call him the ilia yellow hammer others the high hole others the gold en an winged woodpecker woodpeck eel la Is ono one of the busiest heralds of the season during the winter inter he its Is not much given to song but when spring ills his heart biart be tj IN an altot al torether lether dif different terent aill A tort sort of frenzy pose possesses esses gitil rind ond to the bird lover the spring none bong la Is more beautiful than anything that Mendel mendelssohn ever composed the same amo sort ort of madness strikes tri lrea his hl brother tho the red beaded woodpecker and he to t not happy until he can find a tin on root upon which to sound bound his hl reveille its iti the mildness that strikes trl cc the rod red winged blackbird who vrho beems so eo full of 0 the spring joy alint it pours poura out of him in an incoherent and jumbled gurgling flood of sound round it hits the ilia kingbird too and high up op in the air lr ho ha and swerves sounding bounding his hi war cry end and looking tor for a 6 crow or ik hawk to rut put to ignominious night and these theme are but a few of the afi birds who add their to mat maks tho the woods woodi and orchards orchard ring A utis utie later the bird lover will pan the tha crested flycatcher the phoeba tho th A BARN WALLOW meadowlark tho the towhee the th bun barn wallow swallow and the tha yellow billed cuckoo by with scarcely arcely Bc it a glance but when they arst arrive alfrice they are greeted with the same cama thrill of delight which one feels at seeing gin an old friend again so april Is 1 a month of mounting climaxes each day to look forward to because it means tho ilie flight eight of another returning bird friend then late lat in r tho month cornea comes tho the big thrill which makes all others other seem tamo tame it way anay be when you catch tight sight ot of abo bear lot let tann tana gorn gors flashing beauty or when courtly lord baltimore baltimore oriole first makes his bla appearance or it way may bo be when yon hoar hear the soul cong of 0 it a robin which sound exactly like a robin and then when you got it a glimpse of the singer finger he la in tho the rone roae breasted grosbeak whose notes resemble so BO closely those of robin himself but its more likely to be the day when you see eee the first Ted stori or myrtle warbler of the tha season for then you reallie realize that tho the tide of the spring bird migration has haa almost reached its ita peak and that soon the warblers warb lers lern in all their rare bare beauty and difficulty of identification will be here hem to the tha true bird lover there la Is no thrill no eo keen as that of seeing lad and identifying ono one of these thea little coins cems of the bird world for the first time april doya days are am bird days daya and ito bo cause they are that april to li a month MYRTLE WARBLER to took forward to a month to engol to the utmost while it to with us and a month to took back upon with fond eat memory when the beat and dust and stagnation of midsummer comes round again |