I have had a late start this month due to business travel and an excellent week of baseball. I have read through Chapter 4 now. Lots of imagery to support the title "Green Mansions." I am enjoying the romantic and poetic prose in passages such as these.
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Flocks of birds, a kind of troupial, were flying past me overhead, flock succeeding flock, on their way to their roosting-place, uttering as they flew a clear, bell-like chirp; and there was something ethereal too in those drops of melodious sound, which fell into my heart like raindrops falling into a pool to mix their fresh heavenly water with the water of earth.
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as far as I went it was nowhere dark under the trees, and the number of lovely parasites everywhere illustrated the kindly influence of light and air. Even where the trees were largest the sunshine penetrated, subdued by the foliage to exquisite greenish-golden tints, filling the wide lower spaces with tender half-lights, and faint blue-and-gray shadows. Lying on my back and gazing up, I felt reluctant to rise and renew my ramble. For what a roof was that above my head!
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I like the mystery and suspense that is building to Abel's discovery of the unknown forest "being" responsible for the charm of those enigmatic and captivating bird noises. Tension is starting to build with the Parahuaris, and he doesn't speak positively of them. There seems some obvious foreshadow of conflict to come!