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🗓️ 28 April 2025
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0:00.0 | This is Bird Note. |
0:06.4 | The month of April inspires poets, sometimes with contradictory results. |
0:12.4 | T.S. Eliot describes April as the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land. |
0:18.9 | Shakespeare strikes an upbeat note, noting April hath put a spirit of youth dead land. Shakespeare strikes an upbeat note, noting, |
0:21.6 | April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. |
0:25.6 | Let's allow April, through the voice of nature, |
0:28.6 | to speak for itself. |
0:30.6 | Step outside and listen to the birds. |
0:33.6 | In southeastern Alaska, the exuberant voice of a ruby-crowned kinglet rings from a streamside willow. |
0:44.3 | In a Washington State marsh, a common yellow throat perches atop a cat-tail as it belts out its galloping tune. |
1:05.5 | In South Texas, the intricate musical phrasing of a long-billed thrasher rambles forth from a thicket. |
1:13.4 | In a dense Midwestern shrub, a brown thrasher holds forth. |
1:21.9 | The slender secret of thrasher prefers singing from the shadows. |
1:28.5 | From a nearby evergreen come the pure whistled notes of a white-throated sparrow. |
1:36.9 | This sweet music will ring through many northern forests all across the continent. |
1:42.7 | For Bird Note, I'm Michael Stein. |
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