If you happen to live in an older or historic home as we do (1880), and have access to digitized local newspaper archives (our library is, literally, the best), try searching for your address and see what comes up.
I found this sweet tribute to song birds written by a previous owner of our house (song birds are still, many years later, perennialhouse guests here).
Dear Editor,
Wonder how many others have been cheered by the beauty and the number of the birds during this period of snow and wind. Greater numbers than ever before of grosbeaks and song sparrows and cardinals, which this week began his lovely spring song. All winter he whistles us up in the morning.
We had the purple finches at our feeder for the first time, although others have had them before. The chickadees are still with us, so friendly and grateful for the sunflower seed, but soon as the weather warms, they will leave us, and so will the grosbeaks, but then will come the robins and wrens and catbirds and many others.
Let us be thankful that our song birds are again increasing in numbers. However with the new buildings here we have lost our Bob Whites, Mourning Doves and Pheasants who ate under our feeders. We miss them.
