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Foreword
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Preface: Why I Write
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Spring
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Wind Borne
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Restless March
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Spring Washes Its Face
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What Bird is That?
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Birding Memories, Past and Future
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Early Mist
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Devious Ducks
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Wading in Beaver Ponds
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Mid-April Morning
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Old, Old April
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A Day in Early May
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The Virtuoso Brown Thrasher
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Early June Troubles
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Quicksilver
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Summer
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Fairy Dust
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Birds Along the Hocking
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The Chat
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Gentle Hours
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Evensong
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Looking Back
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Rubythroat
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The Geese Fly Now
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Waning July
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The Sound of Longing
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Lost-By Choice
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Night Shadows
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The Passing of August
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September Lament
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Thirteen Jays!
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Fall
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Letters Home
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Lonesomeness
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Giving Thanks
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Eighty-fourth Birthday
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The Lingerer
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October Omens
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The Daytime Trip of the Nighthawks
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An October Walk
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Reverie
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At Last, the Rains
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Autumn Stage Settings
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Invocation
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White-Throated Sparrow
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November's End
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Autumn's Encore
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Winter
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December Snow
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My Backyard Adventures
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Ring In the New
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The "Old" Year
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Hill Country Streams
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Visitors in the Snow
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Overture
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Bird-Watching Surprises
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Settling In
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Winter's Serenade
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The Long Cold
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Do-Nothing Day
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This Land and I
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Suddenly Its Spring!
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To an Old Farm
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List of Illustrations
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