Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — A Kentucky Bird Convention. [ARTICLE]

A Kentucky Bird Convention.

Sameraet Special. A sight so strange that it would pay strangers to come miles to see, occurs every nighty five miles south of this place, onthc cedar bluffs of the (’umberland river. Every evening, Just about sundown*, ,tl}£ sky is darkened as far as you can see, .by great thicks of birds eomhig to Most in the ecdars. Your correspondent, accompanied by a native and a lantern, spent a couple es hours last night among the cedars, wajeniug this-wonderful congregation of birds of every tongue, plumage and almost every coimfry this side of the Startled ny our approach, great crowds of the chattering tribe would rise from their perches in the cedars anil fly. off with a nojse like deep thunder. We had to scream at the top of our votees to heaf one naother speak. Large limbs of the frees ♦vere broken off*, caused by the accumulated weight of the birds. HiAdreds, who . wore .blinded lijf, pur lanterns, would fly inch our foces. We could pick HiAhsands of them from the ftf |he trees. But w;hat seemed so, -strange about this bird Oohventioh was*the seeming peace and harmony thaj existed be-, twedn the birds. The hawk and dove roosted in petoe oft the -same branch, whilehundreds of robiusaud sparrows circled in perfect safety around the peteh of the large dwts. In tlie early morning, when there songsters of the groveleft their perches in thje cedars for the fieldjrof the 'open cefantiyl it U most , beautifill ■ gorgeous fjight to. behold. With the blue of the jay, the crimdon and Ted of 'the ftned kijen and red bird, the yellow and gray 0f he yellow and sparrow birdsaeejulike some grand and splehfiia panorama. of th? flyral kingdom endowed with music moving through the air ip 4 procession composed of all twe coibrs Of the rainbow. Hundreds of pnople go Svery night to Witn- ss this straqge wonder. ” ,n l-» '' T .