. Birds through the year . his passion for con-versation. His notes are a kindof pleasant springlike small-talkrather than the passionate utteranceof the lark or nightingale, or eventhe serious monologue of the chiff-chaff or corn-bunting. At timeshe is even a little ribald, with his guttural objur-gations flung from the lee side of the thorns. Hischaracteristic way of singing is to begin on one sideof the hedge, toss above it in a broken song-flight,and vanish, still in casual song, among the leaves inthe shelter beyond. The yellowhammer outlasts himas the song-bird of the highways in later s
. Birds through the year . his passion for con-versation. His notes are a kindof pleasant springlike small-talkrather than the passionate utteranceof the lark or nightingale, or eventhe serious monologue of the chiff-chaff or corn-bunting. At timeshe is even a little ribald, with his guttural objur-gations flung from the lee side of the thorns. Hischaracteristic way of singing is to begin on one sideof the hedge, toss above it in a broken song-flight,and vanish, still in casual song, among the leaves inthe shelter beyond. The yellowhammer outlasts himas the song-bird of the highways in later summer; but hecomes with a wonderful discourse of music to the hedges ofApril and May. The song-flight of the tree-pipit is less familiar but moremarked. In some of the Welsh valleys from the middle ofApril onwards the tree-pipits sing as perpetually as thewillow-wrens; but in most English districts they are morethinly distributed. They come to us about the middle ofApril, and sometimes sing above the late spring snow, that. 36 SPRING makes the fleece of the new-born lambs look dark southern England they prefer park-land and well-growngroves, or fields with high timber and deep grass. Theirsong-flight is a very beautiful performance. They springinto the air from the top of a tree, flutter upwards a fewmoments in song, and then float downward on motionlessoutspread wings till the song ends, after an emphaticrepetition of four or five high notes as they reach the treeagain. Sometimes they sing without rising from the bough ;
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