A Commonplace Book

Category: birds...

  • adding to your bird-watching lifelist
  • watching a bird build its nest
  • No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. (William Blake)
  • birds singing after a storm
  • If you keep a green bough in your heart, the singing bird will come. (Chinese proverb)
  • The early bird gets the worm. (proverb)
  • a heart like a singing bird
  • down feathers, body feathers, flight feathers, tail feathers
  • birds need food that provides them with lots of energy for flying
  • You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. (Hal Borland)
  • You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft, a certain free-margin, and even vagueness -- ignorance, credulity -- helps your enjoyment of these things. (Walt Whitman)
  • humming bird visitors in New England
  • The only bird to hibernate is the whiporwill of North America.

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