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Birds perform a springtime symphony. Can you identify them by their songs?
By Don Lyman Globe Correspondent,Updated April 23, 2021, 1:03 p.m.
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Black-throated Blue Warbler seen in Mount Auburn Cemetery in May 2017.Jared Keyes
âListen to the songbird, hear him singing. The song he loves heâs singing just for you.â
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As we move into spring, it seems that birds are suddenly everywhere. Whether year-round residents like cardinals or chickadees, or migratory species like warblers returning from their wintering grounds in warm, faraway places, a lot of birds start advertising their presence by singing.
âMale songbirds sing to establish territories and attract mates,â said Wayne Petersen, director of the Massachusetts Important Bird Areas program for Mass Audubon. âGood territories help males attract females.â
Canada Geese take flight at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, Mass. (Glenn Rifkin)
The sky above the open expanse at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, Mass. was ablaze with red clouds reflecting the sunrise. The colors, as dawn transformed into a cold, crisp morning, were dazzling, and the early hour meant we had this wondrous place nearly to ourselves.
As a serious amateur bird photographer, I spend a fair amount of time during the year at Great Meadows. With its open water, extensive reed-covered marshes, and nearby woods and river, it is a bird lover’s paradise. As Emerson wrote in “Nature”: “To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”