February

As one waits for the morning and looks for the first flush in the east, February strains its eyes and ears for the earliest signs of spring, The signs could be a slight increase of some birds in their passing, From mere call-notes to twittering and an occasional song and a flower. February comes in as a month of thaw from a cold winter to wet and dreary, It is a month of anticipation, and the birds from the continent regard it so, Expressing their feeling as a carnival by all sorts of merriment's and gaiety's, It is also the month of the snowdrop, and sap stirring in trees, buds swelling. Snow birds begin to sing and dance and a song sparrow joins in from a high branch, As it sings, a beautiful bird, its bright ruddy breast appears, the first robin, February, just now and again, delivers a faint undercurrent of bubbling life, Like a mountainous country, before the sunrise, peak after peak, a rosy light. Delusive days, a whiff of spring today gets buried under a foot of snow tomorrow, Magical sounds of the early song sparrow, strikes the first blow, of winter fetters, Flocks of ceder-birds, called cherry birds, and wax wings dressed in their Sunday best, Wax wing, is named, because on its feathers and tail bits resembling red sealing wax.