[Mnbird] Stearns County

[Pamela Brustman]

Such a singing descriptive recounting.  One of my favorite summer
soundtracks are the sweet songs of catbirds. They never cease to cause me
to pause and listen and smile.

On Tue, May 23, 2023, 9:01 AM Tami Vogel via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net>
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> Thank you for sharing your beautiful recap, Al. You've certainly lifted
> and inspired me this morning.
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> All my best,
> Tami
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> Tami Vogel
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> *From:* Mnbird <mnbird-bounces at lists.mnbird.net> on behalf of Allen Batt
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 23, 2023 8:23 AM
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> *Subject:* [Mnbird] Stearns County
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>   I walked the trails rimming Lake Sagatagan at the St. John’s Abbey
> Arboretum. My candles were lit by listening blissfully to sandhill cranes
> calling and wood thrush singing. Aldo Leopold described the songs of a
> crane as, “High horns, low horns, silence, and finally pandemonium of
> trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its
> nearness, but without yet disclosing whence it comes.” Thoreau described
> the sound of the wood thrush this way, “It lifts and exhilarates me. It is
> inspiring. It changes all hours to an eternal morning."
>   It was impossible for my eternal morning to last long enough.
>
> Al Batt
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