. >> reporter: in their hedge rows and hayfields of deerfield, massachusetts, -- >> i'm hearing a lot of birds right now. >> reporter: david allen sibley can't help talki he cmunicate with each other through sight and sound. >> reporter: kind of like we do? >> yeah, the same way we do. so everything they do is accessible to us. >> reporter: and the driving force of david sibley's life is to make birds accessible to us, sketching and painting everything from songbirds and swallows to penguins and puffins. >> this is the tufted puffin that's found in the pacific. and this is called rhinoceros oclet. rhinoceros horn os, ng, each feather carefully drafted. you never said to yourself i don't care if i ever draw another chickadee again? >> no, i didn't. it's sort of like one foot in front of the other. just a faith in the process, like knitting or something elsewhere it becomes sort of routine. >> reporter: it has been the routine with a goal, to write and illustrate detailed field guides covering more than 800 species to help bird watchers properly identify what they are seeing. that just

deerfield, massachusetts, 1750, had a population of 550 people. 50 of them were enslaved. southernrner island -- rhode island, home to large slave holdings. families who had owned thousands of acres of grasslands, and they had vast herds of cattle on them, they would own large, enslaved labor forces, mostly women, who would process the dairy products from the cow to ship all over the place, but mostly to the west indies. so you see slave holdings in south county, rhode island, of 60 enslaved people. we are talking rivaling plantations we think of in places like virginia. highly localized but nonetheless a significant slaveholding that belies that kind of 4%. the other piece of this, the other way in which i kind of pushback, is going back to that caribbean connection. while there are not large numbers of enslaved people there per se, the entire economy revolved around what historians call the business of slavery. the selling of provisions to the plantations, the transportation of enslaved people throughout the americas, but also the transatlantic slave trade. back to that

host: let's talk to stanley who was calling from south deerfield, massachusetts.aller: good morning. you should take and put out the facts. ask places to put out things that the common person might not know. anybody that goes in the hospital has surgery. coming out, they worry about the person getting pneumonia. so they give them a spectrometer. it is simple. a test a person can do without being tested. take a breath and as deep as you can. hold it for 10 to 15 seconds, then breathe out. if you start coughing, then you know that your lungs are being compromised. because the tissue will not allow it to come out fast. it will be an automatic spasm. that means you've got the virus started into you. before you get a fever or anything. how come that isn't being -- host: let's look at what congress is doing to try to get an eight package out. here is a story from the hill. senators left on friday night without a deal. ensuring the miss edmund light deadline -- a midnight deadline. mitch mcconnell established friday as a deadline for the broad contours of the package. se