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Article: THE LIVELIEST MONTH
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 30, 1987
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May is the liveliest month, full of movement and song. The great
wave of wood warblers and vireos and flycatchers pass through on
their way north to the vast forests although some of them, like the
yellow warbler or the yellowthroat, will stay with us to nest and
raise young. Warblers are carnivores feeding on the armies of
insects, billions of them, seething out of ground and water,
chewing their way through and across the landscape. The second
great excitement is the passage of the shorebirds, the plovers and
sandpipers, curlews and dowitchers, the wind birds streaming up
the coast to their ancient breeding grounds in the high north.
May 4 -- The yellow lady-slipper blooming now ...