. American ornithology for the home and school . take-driver, Thunder Pump and others. The vocal noisesI will not mention, for who can imitate the sounds or songs of anybird? We cease to listen to the cries of Botaurus and continue to rove, when,lo! we have a chilly sensation in our feet, and find ourselves buried to thehips in the mire. Master Muskrat is responsible for this mishap. Afterextracting ourselves, we continue, and come to a place where there is abreak in the rushes. A Coo-coo-coo-coo, and a streak of disturbedwater tell of a badly frightened Coot. A Killdeer flying over the lake,
. American ornithology for the home and school . take-driver, Thunder Pump and others. The vocal noisesI will not mention, for who can imitate the sounds or songs of anybird? We cease to listen to the cries of Botaurus and continue to rove, when,lo! we have a chilly sensation in our feet, and find ourselves buried to thehips in the mire. Master Muskrat is responsible for this mishap. Afterextracting ourselves, we continue, and come to a place where there is abreak in the rushes. A Coo-coo-coo-coo, and a streak of disturbedwater tell of a badly frightened Coot. A Killdeer flying over the lake, utters his loud kill-dee, kill-dee andcautions all his feathered friends that danger is near. Out on the water, a mother Wood Duck sports with her flock of downychildren. Now she ducks her head for a tender tadpole to feed hersprightly young; now filled with pride over her flock she rises up andflaps her wings. How obedient her ducklings are! How they scamperto her call! I think human children could take profitable lessons fromany of our GREEiN HERON. Photo from life. We watch them with delight, when from a grapevine, nearby, comesthe chow-chow-chow of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, warning us that wemust hurry on or be left in the dark. We heed the warning and leavethe marsh for dry ground. Song Sparrows fly from under our feet and a Meadow Mole scudsaway to hide in denser grass. We come to a pile of logs on the bank. What recollections are some- AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. yr times associated with things! And it is none the less true of this log-pile. What a happy evening I had spent with a friend there, but a fewweeks before (May 26th), trying to bring two young Screech Owl to asociable disposition. But the Owls were indisposed, for turning theirheads on one side, and snapping their beaks with a saucy, harsh, ka-kaa they would remind one of some cranky person, who thought hewas supreme, but, who was afraid to venture an opinion on any sub-ject. But another friend is there to-day.
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