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Tonight, we'll be reading a chapter from the book Bird Watching

titled Watching Blackbirds Nightingales,

Martins, etc. Birdwatching was published in 1901 by Edmond

Edmond Sealous. The author started as by Edmund Celis.

The author started as a conventional naturalist, but Celis developed a hatred of the killing

of animals for scientific study and was a pioneer of bird watching as a method of scientific study.

He was a strong proponent of non-destructive bird study as opposed to the collection of skins and eggs.

The shooting of birds for so-called scientific purposes, like building museum collections, he strongly rejected.

The author was a solitary man and was not well known in ornithological circles.

He avoided both the company of ornithologists and reading their observations so as to base his conclusions

entirely on his own observations.

Celis continued birding and writing until near the end of his life. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now take a few deep breaths. Watching black birds, nightingales, Sandmardons, etc.

Birds are never more charming to watch than when they are building their nests,

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