June 15, 2007

What Birds Know

By BRIDGET STUTCHBURY

As I sat at my kitchen table one morning in late May, putting the final touches on my new book, I could barely believe that songbirds really were in trouble. As daylight gradually crept in through the windows, the backyard of our farmhouse exploded with voices. The first was the dawn song of the tree swallow, joined soon after by the eastern phoebe, yellow warbler, indigo bunting, wood thrush, hooded warbler, scar-let tanager, cardinal, field sparrow, house wren, American redstart, common

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