For many who don’t know birdsong, spring’s beautiful dawn chorus is just unintelligible, chaotic noise. For those who really know it, birdsong is pure music. But how does one get to learn it?My mentor was Worcester County’s Fran McMenemy. He took hundreds of birders under his proverbial wing. We’d walk the forests together. He’d hear a bird and play back a recording of it. The male, proclaiming his bedroom territory, would invariably […]