![]() ![]() And the baby bird he'd marked with the silver thread had established its own nest nearby. When the birds arrive, he is delighted to discover that the birds he'd watched and studied and drawn in his little cave were indeed the same ones who returned to the cave the following year. ![]() ![]() He waits for the beginnings of spring and return of the birds. Thread to try to identify it if it returns the next year. John James comes up with the novel idea to band a baby Phoebe bird with some silver ![]() Really show how much we understand the seasons through trees. He would see with the coming of the spring would be the same ones whoĪs he wonders about the birds, we watch the seasons pass, marked on one page by four simple littleĭrawings of a single tree changing. We learn that he was sent to America to learn commerce and to avoid fighting in Napoleon's war.īut what John James mostly does is watch the pewee birds and wonder if the birds Next we see him in the white, snowy Pennsylvania woods. And we learn that what John James most loved to do was watch birds. We first see John James as a young man with his father in the lush green French countryside. ![]()
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