Miracle of Migration

Trail Wood #30.2.09 Earl Plato

From his Trail Wood setting Ed Teal and wife Nellie enjoyed the spectacle of migrating birds.
“Hearing and seeing those advanced migrants revices memories of the great flocks of varied species we have seen assembling in the south. Tens of thousands of birds, excited, active, stimulated by the approach of their long journey to their breeding grounds in the north. I remember a day when as far as Nellie and I could see across the saw grass of the Everglades. The air was filled with clouds of swirling tree swallows, shooting down, twisting, climbing, theor white breasts catching the sun, birds innumerable, swallows beyond counting. We wondered where they all would end heir northward travels. They seemed lile the milling throng in some Grand Central Station, each traveler with a ticket for destination. How the migrants cross the sky by day or night, how they guide themselves along the way to their separate destinations is a riddle…”