Eastern Meadowlark
Personal memory by Constance Miksits
1964 • Northampton, PA, USA
Eastern meadowlarks were abundant in the alfalfa fields surrounding my town. They appeared year after year, nesting and raising broods successfully before the alfalfa was harvested. My memory of their clear, melodious and strangely electronic-sounding song is inseparable from my memory of rising summer dew. When farmers stopped growing alfalfa to grow feed corn, the meadowlarks disappeared.
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