Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pheasant, Grouse, Quail, and Grey Squirrel Seasons end in Massachusetts today; the archery season for deer opens tomorrow. The bird hunting thus far this fall has been good for Massachusetts. The pheasant season was quite productive, quails were numerous on the Cape, and the grouse kill, always sparse, was surprisingly high...
...Sitting Bird Watchers...
...Elizabeth and Philip presented the Eisenhowers with a pair of American parula warblers sculptured in porcelain. Can it be that the Eisenhowers are bird watchers and that these warblers are their favorites? Incidentally, we never see the parula around here. Probably because of the absence of usnea moss, with which it pins up its little basketlike nest with its side entrance. I used to see them in such nests in the swamps down South...
...marshes near Sicily's town of Marsala, Hunter Paolo Lamia took aim, shot down a black-plumed, white-breasted stilt plover, a breed seldom seen in Italy, which migrates each fall from Arctic Siberia to North Africa. On the bird's right leg Lamia found a glass vial containing a message, written in Italian with scrawled capital letters on both sides of an eight-inch strip of paper. On orders of the Ministry of the Interior, the paper was painstakingly analyzed, determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years...
...such state loyalty. Raw material from the coal mines of western Pennsylvania is as likely to turn up in Miami or Maryland as it is to be discovered at Pitt. Massillon, Ohio, a perennial producer of champions, sends its graduates all over the Big Ten. West Point's bird dogs have always found fine hunting on the playing fields of Florida; Michigan State Coach Duffy Daugherty collects some of his burliest backs in the mill towns of Massachusetts...