. Wild nature's ways . / THE BASS ROCK. CHAPTER VIIL WINTER SHIFTS. HOW FEATHERED FOLK FARE DURING SEVERE WEATHER. AV/^EN the rowan and^ blackberries have allbeen consumed and bitterNovember blasts come roaringlike hungry wild beasts outof the frozen North, drivingworms and other forms oflowly life to their sleepingquarters deep down in thebosom of Mother Earth, the. ROBIN FEEDING UPONCOCOANUT PLACED ONHORN OF STUFFED OXFOR TITS. hardships of bird life com-mence in earnest. Vast multitudes of fieldfaresand redwings travel south to share with thrushesand blackbirds such store of hips and haws a
. Wild nature's ways . / THE BASS ROCK. CHAPTER VIIL WINTER SHIFTS. HOW FEATHERED FOLK FARE DURING SEVERE WEATHER. AV/^EN the rowan and^ blackberries have allbeen consumed and bitterNovember blasts come roaringlike hungry wild beasts outof the frozen North, drivingworms and other forms oflowly life to their sleepingquarters deep down in thebosom of Mother Earth, the. ROBIN FEEDING UPONCOCOANUT PLACED ONHORN OF STUFFED OXFOR TITS. hardships of bird life com-mence in earnest. Vast multitudes of fieldfaresand redwings travel south to share with thrushesand blackbirds such store of hips and haws asa barren or bounteous summer may have leftupon the leafless twigs of hedgerows and bush-clad common for them. In spite of repeated failures, many peopleprofess their ability to forecast the character of 264 WILD NATURES WAYS. a coming winter by the abundance or scarcityof wild fruits. A little observation will, I think,suffice to show that there is not much in thisbeyond the part played by mere accident. Naturehas little care to bestow upon the weak individualof to-day ; her great concern is for the welfareof the species to-morrow. The effect of this isthat we have now with us a stronger and healthierstock of feathered winter residents than weshould have had if the severe weather at thebeginning of 1895 had not killed off all the weak-lings and undesirables
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