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August is always reliable for the local birder and 2022 was no different, as bumper Pied Flycatcher and Garganey numbers were enjoyed along with some exciting seawatching.
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Angela Patten
Vermont poet Cora Brooks (1941-2018) would sometimes begin her public readings with a one-line poem: Forgive these words they are not birds.
While ruing the meagerness of human artifice compared with nature s wonders, in a quietly melodic way Brooks was also offering a bit of birdsong of her own not only an apology but an emulation.
Angela Patten would likely concur, and heartily, with Brooks sense of fellowship with the feathered ones. Her new chapbook,
The Oriole & the Ovenbird, includes 21 poems, with a bird (or several) appearing in each. The book s cover image is an ecstatic avian painting by Vermont artist Adelaide Murphy Tyrol.