BirdNote®
Daybreak Track – Emily Dickinson
Written by Frances Wooden
That is BirdNote! [Mixture of birds calling at dawn]
One of many magical items of spring is to listen to the daybreak music. As early morning mild extinguishes the celebs, as the primary rays of daylight fill the timber, male birds start to pour out their songs. Warblers… , sparrows…, chickadees…, thrushes…, finches…, wrens…, blackbirds… [Repeat dawn song, building to a full boisterous sound]
Whereas the awe and majesty of this symphony at daybreak are arduous to convey, poet Emily Dickinson, described it this manner:
The birds begun at 4 o’clock—
Their interval for daybreak—
A music quite a few as house
And measureless as midday.
I couldn’t depend their pressure,
Their voices did expend
As brook by brook bestows itself
To enlarge the pond.
Their witnesses weren’t,
Besides occasional man
In homely trade arrayed
To overhaul the morn.
Nor was it for applause
That I may verify,
However impartial ecstasy
Of Deity and Males. [More dawn song]
For BirdNote, I’m Mary McCann.
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Daybreak Refrain (Daybreak at Carnation Marsh, WA throughout April) supplied by: Martyn Stewart at Naturesound.org
BirdNote’s theme music was composed and performed by Nancy Rumbel and produced by John Kessler.
Producer: John Kessler
Government Producer: Chris Peterson / Dominic Black
© 2015 Tune In to Nature.org Revised for March 2017. March 2019 / 2020/2022
ID # 032105dawnKPLU edickinson-01b-2009-04-07-MM
Species: Darkish-eyed Junco (repeated trilling); Purple-breasted Sapsucker (early drumming); Pileated Woodpecker (name); Track Sparrow; White-crowned Sparrow; and Black-headed Grosbeak.
