The final chapter of John Burrough’s book, Wake-Robin. Burroughs invites you to become a birder, describing the thrill of seeing the natural world around you through a new lens.

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Intro music: Kai Engel Walking Barefoot on Grass

Outro music: The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps: United States National Anthem (The Star Spangled Banner)

Download Wake-Robin by John Burroughs in e-reader format at or archive.org.

Click the links below for details about the bird vocalizations used in this episode from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:

• Wood Duck
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Red-eyed Viero
• White-eyed Viero
• Eastern Wood Pewee
• American Robin
• Wood Thrush
• Hermit Thrush
• Song Sparrow
• Vesper Sparrow
• Savannah Sparrow
• Purple Finch
• Winter Wren
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet