. The British bird book . lds, with similar results. There is no seasonof the year, in fact, during which it is not its appetite is simply enormous. The crop is sometimesD 37 so distended with grain that it will turn aside the shotfrom a gun, fired at the bird as it flies head-on towardsa sportsman. It will hold a sufficient quantity of turniptops, when loosely shaken up, to fill a pint measure. Andas these birds often travel in large flocks, returning to thefields day after day, there is hardly any limit to thedamage which they cause. The pigeon is so wary, too, that it is dif
. The British bird book . lds, with similar results. There is no seasonof the year, in fact, during which it is not its appetite is simply enormous. The crop is sometimesD 37 so distended with grain that it will turn aside the shotfrom a gun, fired at the bird as it flies head-on towardsa sportsman. It will hold a sufficient quantity of turniptops, when loosely shaken up, to fill a pint measure. Andas these birds often travel in large flocks, returning to thefields day after day, there is hardly any limit to thedamage which they cause. The pigeon is so wary, too, that it is difficultto approach it. Even when it is engaged infeeding two or three sentinels are always onthe look-out. And as soon as the alarm isgiven the whole flock make off with such speedthat it is almost impossible to shoot them. It seems rather strange that this bird shouldbe so very plentiful, since it never lays more thantwo eggs in a singleseason. But the nestis always placed sohigh up in the branchesof a tree or a tall bush. that it is difficult to reach it; and large flocks seem to visitus from other countries during the autumn. These maketheir way at first to the woods, where they feast uponacorns and beech-mast. But before the winter is overthey join forces with those which are devasting the firstgrowth in the corn-fields.
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