The Clerk of the Woods

autumn beauty better birches birds blossoms bluebirds bobolink branch bright bushes chickadees chipmunks color coming downy woodpecker dropped dunlin ears flight flock flowers flying fox sparrow frogs Gilbert White gone grass gray green ground half hear heard hill hour kind leaves less listen live look March marsh meadow mile minute month morning Nashville warblers nearer never nuthatches once ornithology palm warbler passed pasture perched perhaps pine pine warbler pretty purple finch red-eyed vireo remember road roadside rose-breasted grosbeak sandpipers season seemed seen side sight singing song sparrow sound spring squirrels stopped sure swallows swamp talk tall things Thoreau thought tree trill turn vesper sparrow vireo voice walk warbler weather whistling white-breasted nuthatch wind wings winter wonder woodcock woods yellow young