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One Sunday afternoon in May , in Madison's warbler week , I sat on my back porch writing . I had been across the street to the University Arboretum earlier in the morning , and had ticked 23 a off my share of familiar warblers . I.
One Sunday afternoon in May , in Madison's warbler week , I sat on my back porch writing . I had been across the street to the University Arboretum earlier in the morning , and had ticked 23 a off my share of familiar warblers . I.
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A better illustration , however , than the prothonotary , which is too distinctive for recognition of it on its return to merit a prize , would be a second sight of a more common warbler , or of some hawk or sandpiper .
A better illustration , however , than the prothonotary , which is too distinctive for recognition of it on its return to merit a prize , would be a second sight of a more common warbler , or of some hawk or sandpiper .
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Anyone who has listened to a recording of a succession of sparrows , say , or warblers , in one of Peterson's Field Guides and has tried to find that particular sparrow or warbler he heard on his morning walk , will know that recordings ...
Anyone who has listened to a recording of a succession of sparrows , say , or warblers , in one of Peterson's Field Guides and has tried to find that particular sparrow or warbler he heard on his morning walk , will know that recordings ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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