Show Early Birds The enthusiastic shouts of robins robins robins rob rob- ins and other early birds that you hear in hi early spring are not enticing enticing enticing en en- songs love-songs designed to win mates for themselves as poets used to tell us says Science Service ice The first coming birds are exclusively exclusively ex ex- elusively males and there are no prospective mates within several days' days travel These lusty singers are doing exactly what our pione piene pie pio- ne ne- ner r fc fur did in the days when the West was wild Each one ole picks out what looks like a good piece of worm-mining worm ground and proceeds to stake claim to it Early spring songs are notifications notifications notifications to possible trespassers to keep off or else |