A world of green hills

In a day and a night I had come from early May to middle June; from a world of bare boughs to a forest clad in all the verdure of summer. Such a shine as the big, lusty leaves o...

Some years ago I had proved, as I thought, that the male ruby-throat habitually takes no part in the hatching and rearing of its young, and, for that matter, is never to be seen...

So I sauntered along, with frequent interruptions, of course (that was part of the game),--here for a bird, there for a flower, a tree, or a bit of landscape. I recall especiall...

For some hours we had been traveling thus, and were now come to an open place in the town of Hamburg, so the driver told me. Here, all at once, I nudged him with a quick command...

Anthropology and ornithology were very agreeably mingled for me on the Hamburg road,--though it seems impossible for me to stay there, the reader may say,--where passers-by were...

As I went on, passing the height of land and beginning my descent homeward, I met two other foot-passengers,--two women: one old and fat,--the only fat mountaineer of either sex...

The only trees I remember at the very top of the mountain were a few dwarfed and distorted pines and white oaks,--enough to remind a Yankee that he was not in New Hampshire. On...

The gentlest of zephyrs was stirring, the very breath of spring, soft and of a delicious temperature. My New England cheeks, winter-crusted and still half benumbed, felt it only...

The worm-eating warbler, it may be worth while to add, is one of the less widely known members of its numerous family; plainness itself in its appearance, save for its showy cap...

The same birds amused me at another time by their senseless conduct in the stony margins of the creek, where they had taken refuge when I pressed them too nearly. There they squ...

This song, which the reader will perhaps blame me for trying thus to analyze (I shall not blame _him_), very soon grew to be almost a part of the glen; so that I never recall th...

My enjoyment of the country about the Bridge may be said to have begun with my settling down for a more leisurely stay. Hurry and discontent are poor helps to appreciation. That...

After such a stirring up, a man’s ears are apt to be abnormally sensitive, not to say imaginative; then, if ever, he will hear wonders: for which reason, it may be, I had turned...

Warbler:-- Blackburnian, 126, 128, 195, 240, 255. blackpoll, 127, 196. black-throated blue, 121, 126, 180, 240, 254, 255. black-throated green, 23, 195, 255. blue yellow-backed...