. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . h outside for eacli pair. It was very funnyto see rows and rows of Starlings all jabbering away atonce, like so many old women. Driving along the sandy roads of Jutland, a very con-spicuous bird is the Common Bunting. Uttering its simpleand monotonous song while perched on the telephone- andtelegraph-wires at the roadside, a Bunting is passed sofrequently that one begins to tliink it the conunonest birdin Denmark. Another roadside bird is the Crested T^ark; but itseems actually to prefer the village street to the countryroad, a
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . h outside for eacli pair. It was very funnyto see rows and rows of Starlings all jabbering away atonce, like so many old women. Driving along the sandy roads of Jutland, a very con-spicuous bird is the Common Bunting. Uttering its simpleand monotonous song while perched on the telephone- andtelegraph-wires at the roadside, a Bunting is passed sofrequently that one begins to tliink it the conunonest birdin Denmark. Another roadside bird is the Crested T^ark; but itseems actually to prefer the village street to the countryroad, and here it runs about under ones feet close to thehouses in the familiar way one expects from a Sparrow Bird Life in Denmark—On the Fjord :i;55 rather tliaii a Lark. The crest is most conspicuous, bciiifycarried as a rule Aery upright ; and the bird is a strikino-and interestino- one on first acquaintance. On one by-day, wlien it was ahiiost too windy to setup a camera, I walked about three or four miles onpurpose to see something of the Crested Lark, and cer-. JStowing the Cameras in the Boat. tainly did see a few birds, l)ut quite failed in discoveringany nest. On reaching the small village inn, liowever, wherewe were staying, there were two Crested I^arks runningabout the road just in front of the door; and I reallybelieve, if I had staved in, I mitrht have been able tophotograph them out of my window. 336 Pictures of Bird Life On first {iiTi\al in Jutland, to our orcut disappointnientwe saAV at once tliat ^ye were nearly a fortnight too exceptionally late and cold spring- had so delayedmatters that some of tlie birds had only just arrived, andhad barely commenced to nest, the first days work onlyresulting in finding a few Redshanks and Peewits eggs. The fjord, which runs inland for nearly thirty milesthrough a narrow entrance, is \ery shallow and studdedwith numerous islets only a few inches above high water,and surrounded by sand-dunes and salt marslies. It isan
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