Tag: Snow Bunting

  • Episode 6: Into the Hemlocks

    Episode 6: Into the Hemlocks

    “And what is a bird without its song? It seems to me I do not know a bird till  I’ve heard its voice.” John Burroughs’s second essay, Into the Hemlocks featuring the red-eyed vireo, the winter wren and veery. Thoughts on taking specimens for study, Blackburnian warbler and the blue yellow-backed warbler, now known as the Northern Parula.…

  • Episode 2: Welcome Back Flycatchers, Woodpeckers & Thrushes

    Episode 2: Welcome Back Flycatchers, Woodpeckers & Thrushes

    Burroughs describes robin’s ramshackle nest, the under appreciated socialis, or song sparrow, and his affection for the northern flicker.