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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of 2017?
3 years ago - By 10,000 Birds
Now that most of the gift giving and bird counting has been discharged, before the revels and resolutions of the final night of the year, I like to sit-somewhere warm, of course-and consider a cheerful verse from Oliver Herford :
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
“We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,”
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
No matter how dark your December, take the time to enjoy the songs of birds who long, as you do, for spring.
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