Show early birds the enthusiastic shouts of robins and other early birds that you hear in early spring are not enticing love songs designed to win mates for themselves as poets used ed to tell us says science service the first coming birds are exclusively clu males and there are no prospective mates within several days travel these lusty singers are doing exactly what our pioneer forebears did in the days when the west was wild each one picks out what looks like a good piece of worm mining ground and proceeds to stake claim to it early spring songs are notifications to possible trespassers to keep off or else |