. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . ds are wontto do Crows and other predaceous birds, his hawk-likeappearance attracting them. The Cuckoo is one of the last birds to make hisappearance here in the spring, and probably the first toleave us in the early autumn. We miss his mellownotes in hay harvest, and there is a saying here that thesight of the haycocks drives him away. I am of opinionthe aduit birds leave before the young ones. Certaia it 256 RURAL BIRD LIFE. is they do not tarry much longer after the hay is mow
. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . ds are wontto do Crows and other predaceous birds, his hawk-likeappearance attracting them. The Cuckoo is one of the last birds to make hisappearance here in the spring, and probably the first toleave us in the early autumn. We miss his mellownotes in hay harvest, and there is a saying here that thesight of the haycocks drives him away. I am of opinionthe aduit birds leave before the young ones. Certaia it 256 RURAL BIRD LIFE. is they do not tarry much longer after the hay is mown,and the male but rarely sings after midsummer. I on oneoccasion heard him singing the third week in fact of the bird remaining silent, and its hawk-likeappearance, causes it no doubt to be overlooked by mostpeople. But he seldom sees the lovely tints of autumn,and never hears the wintry storm-winds voice, for, im-pelled by resistless impulse, he wings his way afar overmountain, stream, and sea, to a land where the northernblasts are not felt, and where a summer sun is shining ina cloudless THE SWALLOW, It is perhaps in the habits and movements of birdsthat we have the most marked signs of the changingseasons. Thus, as winter almost insensibly passes intospring, bird life is sure to make us aware of the change ;for does not the charming Blackcap, fresh from a southernhaunt, sit and warble on the yet leafless branches, andthe Throstle and the Blackbird, Cock Robin and JennyWren, carol forth the praises of the vernal year fromevery tree and hedgerow ? Then, too, the ever welcomestranger Cuckoos notes are heard sounding so full andclear from the distant woods, and the Skylark and theBunting seem overflowing with rapture for the change ofseason. As spring rolls imperceptibly into summer theextreme vivacity of bird life is a predominant bird is busy : the fluttering of a thousand wingsamongst the branches, and the abundance and power of S 258 RURAL
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