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...still the perfect destination for a late fall Halloween stroll. And if you’re so inclined, the online birding journal “Bird Observer” says that Mt. Auburn is a breeding ground for a startling variety of birds, including the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown-headed cowbird. Don’t let these candy-ass names fool you, though. Their blood-curdling cries will strike fear into the hearts of even the bravest Sunday stroller. The graves at Mt. Auburn provide an architectural counterpoint to its natural fall beauty. The tombstone of Charles Bulfinch?...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finally, an Educational Halloween! | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...downy woodpecker, fish crow, rock dove, gold finch. And another 38 kinds drop by for visits. A couple of Mallard scooted in to see the South Fountain. Evenden, lurking in the bushes, spotted itinerant yellow-throats, towhees, pewees, chickadees, ruby-throated hummingbirds, red-eyed vireos and a red-breasted nuthatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Lemonade and Surf | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

OLIVIER MESSIAEN: CHRONOCHROMIE FOR ORCHESTRA (Angel). One of France's leading composers, declaring that "nature is the supreme resource," has based a weird, episodic, 22-minute piece on the sounds of wind and water and the songs of birds (the xylophone plays the nuthatch, the glockenspiel the wren). At one point the instrumental stand-ins for 18 birds, from nightingale to chiffchaff, perform a complex medley. Yet Chronochromie is no mere imitation of nature, and in fact stands at the opposite pole-being a highly cerebral exercise concerned, as its title indicates, with the "color of time." Played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 15, 1966 | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...STATE-SUPPORTED NUTHATCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...ornithologist has discerned 15 species, among which are: two varieties of chickadee, a ruby-crowned kinglet, a black and white junco, a nuthatch, a downy woodpecker and forlorn cedar waxwing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND BIRD SANCTUARY RECEIVES NOISY NEW GUESTS | 3/26/1932 | See Source »

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