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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
When we first moved in here in NE Massachusetts in 1976 we would hear bobwhite calling in the evening from across the Shawsheen flats. “Evening vespers” I’ve heard it called. Then that area quickly became industrialized.
We would hear them off and on for the first 5 or 6 years but haven’t heard them in close to 40 years now.
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There is certainly a lot to be said for progress, but it's accounts like this that remind us of the cost of that progress.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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