. Birds through the year . hirst, ripe blackberries to eat;Yonder in the sun the merry hares go leaping,And the pool is clear for travel-wearied feet Sorely throb my feet, a-tramping London highways,(Ah ! the springy moss upon a northern moor !) Through the endless streets, the gloomy squares and byways,Homeless in the City, poor among the poor ! Oh, my heart is fain to hear the soft wind blowing,Soughing through the fir-tops up on northern fells ! Oh, my eyes an ache to see the brown burns flowingThrough the peaty soil and tinkling heatherbells. Ada Smith, In City Streets. The red grouse is s
. Birds through the year . hirst, ripe blackberries to eat;Yonder in the sun the merry hares go leaping,And the pool is clear for travel-wearied feet Sorely throb my feet, a-tramping London highways,(Ah ! the springy moss upon a northern moor !) Through the endless streets, the gloomy squares and byways,Homeless in the City, poor among the poor ! Oh, my heart is fain to hear the soft wind blowing,Soughing through the fir-tops up on northern fells ! Oh, my eyes an ache to see the brown burns flowingThrough the peaty soil and tinkling heatherbells. Ada Smith, In City Streets. The red grouse is scattering Dews from his golden wingGemmd with the radiance that heralds the day; Peace in our Highland vales, Health on our mountain gales—Who would not hie to the Moorlands away! Far from the haunts of man Mark the gray Ptarmigan,Seek the lone Moorcock, the pride of our dells, Birds of the wilderness ! Here is their resting-place,Mid the brown heath where the mountain-roe dwells. J. W. C, British Sport Past and A CHANGE OF DIET One of the most novel of local migrations among birds is theevacuation of the towns by sparrows just about the samedate that society likes to leave. Our towns are a protection,organised on a vast scale, for certain species of birds. Thesuburbs encourage starlings and carrion crows, among others,but both town and suburb breed sparrows in almost appallingquantity. The seven million of inhabitants in greaterLondon are a handful to the sparrows of greater London ;and the comparative number of sparrows is even greater in theMidland towns. But the town birds are not quite faithful tothe towns. They have learnt to nest in the towns in anysort of site. They have even taken to living at this season infiats, like intensive chickens. More than once one of thoselumps of untidy hay and straw and string and feathers inwhich the sparrows eggs are laid has been found to containtwo or more nests. Sometimes these strange erections havefallen by their over-wei
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