Bird watching is a bloodless expression of man’s primitive hunting instincts. We have substituted binoculars and cameras for the gun, but we still seek a trophy – A new species on a life list, or photographs of one of earth’s rarest and most exquisite creatures. Our search may take us no farther than a nearby […]
Bird Quotes
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Ostrich, n.: A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
Turkey, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.
Her beauty was sold For an old man’s gold, She’s a bird in a gilded cage.
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
