<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Warbler</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This year we have two gorgeous</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">yellow-throated warblers nesting in the honeysuckle bush.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The other day I stuck my head in the bush.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The nestlings weigh one-twentieth of an ounce,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">about the size of a honey bee. We stare at</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">each other, startled by our existence.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In a month or so, when they reach the size</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">of a bumblebee’s, they’ll fly to Costa Rica without a map,</span><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Jim Harrison</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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