Bird Stories from Burroughs / Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs

by John Burroughs

Drummed her up and drew her near,
In the April morn,
Till she owned him for her dear
In his state forlorn.

Now he shirks all family cares,
This I must confess;
Quite absorbed in self affairs
In the season's stress.

We are neighbors well agreed
Of a common lot;
Peace and love our only creed
In this charmèd spot.

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INDEX

• Blackbird, cow. See [Cowbird].
• Bluebird, arrival in spring, [1];
  • nest-building, [1], [2];
  • young and cicada, [2], [3];
  • a bewildered pair, [3-7];
  • love and rivalry, [7-12];
  • war with house wrens, [47-52].
• Bluebird, The, poem, [13].
• Bobolink, courtship, [77], [78];
  • concealment of nest, [78-81].
• Bobolink, The, poem, [82].
• Bob-white. See [Quail].
• Butcher-bird. See [Shrike, northern].

• Catbird, song of, [72], [73];
  • and black snake, [73-76];
  • a coquette, [83].
• Cedar-bird, nest-building, [122], [123];
  • notes of, [124].
• Chewink, markings of, [39];
  • Thomas Jefferson writes to Alexander Wilson about, [39-41];
  • inhospitality of, [83].
• Chickadee, nesting of, [157-160].
• Chippy. See [Sparrow, chipping].
• Coming of Phœbe, The, poem, [31].
• Cowbird, notes of, [33];
  • parasitic habits of, [33-35].
• Crow, character of, [138], [139];
  • manners of, [139], [140];
  • wariness of, [140-142];
  • yearly meeting, [142], [143].
• Crow, The, poem, [144].

• Downy Woodpecker, The, poem, [169].

• Flicker, call of, [21];
  • courtship, [22], [25], [26];
  • not satisfied with being a woodpecker, [22], [23];
  • excavating a nest, [23];
  • young, [23-25];
  • drumming, [26], [27].