Nature's invitation: Notes of a bird-gazer, North and South

Chapter 2: PREFATORY NOTE

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A series of observant essays and travel sketches records seasonal birdwatching and landscape impressions from New England mountains through southern swamps and western deserts. The pieces combine close natural-history notes on birds, plants, songs, and nests with vivid field impressions, weather-wrought scenes, and reflections on rural change. Short newspaper-style letters alternate with longer mountain narratives, offering botanical asides, migratory and behavioral observations, and gentle meditations on solitude, place, and the pleasures of attentive outdoor life.

PREFATORY NOTE

Of the chapters here brought together the two longest, the first and the last, are reprinted from the “Atlantic Monthly.” The others were originally contributed, by way of weekly letters, to three newspapers,—the “Evening Transcript” of Boston, and the “Mail and Express” and the “Evening Post” of New York.