[Mnbird] Stearns County

[linda whyte]

I'm adding my thanks to everyone else's, Al. Having spent the past week
with my sister at her care center reminded me of the pure joy birdsong
offers to those whose horizons are shrinking. (It's amazing how much
birding one can do on a deck, from a wheelchair, with just ears, eyes, and
a Sibley app - a lovely way to share our limited time; and a joy even
cancer doesn't deny her.) Thanks for the reminder!
Linda Whyte


On Tue, May 23, 2023, 8:23 AM Allen Batt via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net>
wrote:

>   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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