Bird Biographies, by Alice E. Ball, Part 3
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Let's fly off to relaxation with more from this lovely book about our feathered friends. This time, we learn about the birds of early spring, and marvel at the sleepy songs of the sparrows.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you |
| 0:17.1 | get some sleep. Before we begin I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new members of our Patreon family. |
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| 1:34.0 | Now, let's read and relax. |
| 1:40.0 | Find a comfortable spot. |
| 1:43.7 | Adjust your volume. |
| 1:47.3 | Take a nice deep breath in. |
| 1:52.4 | Let it out slowly and off we go. |
| 1:57.0 | Tonight let's relax with some new selections from bird biographies, a guidebook for beginners, |
| 2:09.0 | an introduction to 150 common land birds of the eastern United States. |
| 2:17.2 | By Alice E. Ball, author of a year with the birds, with 56 colored plates. |
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