Natural History Stories

John Burroughs - Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and other papers: Sharp Eyes, The Apple


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Welcome to Natural History Stories - a podcast of classic writings on natural history and nature observation. Our first four episodes take us through the John Burroughs collection, "Bird and Bees, Sharp Eyes and other papers." Published in 1887, the works were written between 1875 and 1886.


This episode contains Sharp Eyes, and, The Apple.


In this episode a new outdated common bird name not explained in episode 1 is used. The name used in this episode is tit-lark. This bird is now known to us as American Pipit.



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