Where the Brown Snakes Roam

Where the Brown Snakes Roam

A Lost Language

Remembering how to hear bird song

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Bernard Brown
Mar 29, 2025
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Last week I heard a familiar song as I walked home from the Y early in the morning. It was flute-like and simple, rising in three notes and falling over and over. “I know that song,” I said to myself, and as I left it behind me, and approached another one singing half a block away, I all but slapped my head. It was an American robin. It is only one of t…

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