ite OWBON BULLE TIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
PiaeiEN OLS AUDUBON S50 CIETY 
2001 NORTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
Number 49 " March, 1944 
Spring Comes in January 
By MARGARET MORSE NICE 
WINTER IN CENTRAL OHIO is unpredictable. It gives us snow and bitter 
weather, and then, a touch of spring with tree frogs calling, buds swelling 
and song sparrows singing. The mood changes and winter descends once 
more, silencing the hopeful birds and freezing the buds. 
On snowy mornings we were out before dawn 
Of all this variety of weather I was very much aware, for was I not 
census-taker and guardian of the song sparrows on Interpont, the’ stretch 
of waste land between our house in Columbus and the Olentangy River? 
Whatever the thermometer said, I needed to be out every morning. Snow 
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