. Bird-land echoes; . f^.r^^^— -=s:^. Sharp-shinned as in summer, and among them many Peabody-birds. It is not strange that these wandering hawksshould discover such places, and what a disturbanceis created when they dash by and carry off a victim !How the other birds struggle to reach the greenbrierthickets, tumbling rather than flying, as though so A Few Feathered Fiends. 219 many cripples with their canes and crutches ! Alighting up of the woods or a generally enlargedoutlook from any point of view puts the sharp-shinned hawk in excellent humor, if such a cruelcreature be susceptible
. Bird-land echoes; . f^.r^^^— -=s:^. Sharp-shinned as in summer, and among them many Peabody-birds. It is not strange that these wandering hawksshould discover such places, and what a disturbanceis created when they dash by and carry off a victim !How the other birds struggle to reach the greenbrierthickets, tumbling rather than flying, as though so A Few Feathered Fiends. 219 many cripples with their canes and crutches ! Alighting up of the woods or a generally enlargedoutlook from any point of view puts the sharp-shinned hawk in excellent humor, if such a cruelcreature be susceptible to any of the gentler emo-tions. As I pass along the gully on the first frostymorning, when the ground does not yield to the footand the notes of the song-sparrow come rolling downthe brook as frozen drops of music, I always ex-pect to see a flash of dark lightning and to hear,perhaps, the whistle! of wings; for the sharp-shinned hawk is ever prowling here, entering theravine at its head and leaving it where it opens tothe meadows. These birds appear to
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