. Through the year with Thoreau . always writing of the same character,though much diversified. While the bird picks upthe material and lays the egg, who determines thestyle of the When you approach, awaydashes the dark mother, betraying her nest, and thenchatters her anxiety from a neighboring bush, whereshe is soon joined by the red-shouldered male, whocomes scolding over your head, chattering and utter-ing a sharp phe-phee-e. Journal, ix, 397. June 6, 1856. How well suited the lining of abirds nest, not only for the comfort of the young,but to keep the eggs from breaking! Fine ela
. Through the year with Thoreau . always writing of the same character,though much diversified. While the bird picks upthe material and lays the egg, who determines thestyle of the When you approach, awaydashes the dark mother, betraying her nest, and thenchatters her anxiety from a neighboring bush, whereshe is soon joined by the red-shouldered male, whocomes scolding over your head, chattering and utter-ing a sharp phe-phee-e. Journal, ix, 397. June 6, 1856. How well suited the lining of abirds nest, not only for the comfort of the young,but to keep the eggs from breaking! Fine elasticgrass stems or root-fibres, pine-needles, or hair, orthe like. These tender and brittle things which youcan hardly carry in cotton lie there without harm. Journal, viii, 368. July 30, 1852. What a gem is a birds egg, espe-cially a blue or a green one, when you see one, brokenor whole, in the woods! I noticed a small blue eggthis afternoon washed up by Flints Pond and halfburied by white sand, and as it lay there, alternately.
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