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71 Observation on the Return of Migratory Birds I record each arrival. Early and late the birds are returning. The blue jay, March 1. Pigeons and robins, the week before my birthday. I am only here, in this last week of April, seeing chickadees wing back and gather nesting. I need the eye I am when I am witnessing this small and songful resolution, feathered collations ledge-perched, tufted shadows skimming our alley’s cobbles and then gone and then back again. When these flitters return to my block of the black ward one morning and stay on into the evening, always, I notice, I smile. ...

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