This must be said about the pine siskin. It is a plain bird. There is more to say about the siskin, though-about how it looks and acts and sounds and, finally, about some mysteries surrounding it. The ...

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CHATHAM, N.Y. As the moody month of March oscillates between cold wintery days and days of warm sunshine, tree buds swell, lawns turn greenish and blackbirds herald the dawn. Spring is coming, but ...