. Bird-life of the borders, records of wild sport and natural history on moorland and sea. Birds -- Great Britain. AMONG THE WILD GEESE. •201 The object of the expedition being chiefly the Geese, which would then be snugly roosting on the rolling waves a mile or two outside the bar, nothing could be done that night or until the tide commenced to flow about six in the morning. At that hour the morning proved fine; the moon, only a few days past the full, shone brightly in the western heavens, and by her light we could dimly discern the desolate features of the broad estuary, extending far away
. Bird-life of the borders, records of wild sport and natural history on moorland and sea. Birds -- Great Britain. AMONG THE WILD GEESE. •201 The object of the expedition being chiefly the Geese, which would then be snugly roosting on the rolling waves a mile or two outside the bar, nothing could be done that night or until the tide commenced to flow about six in the morning. At that hour the morning proved fine; the moon, only a few days past the full, shone brightly in the western heavens, and by her light we could dimly discern the desolate features of the broad estuary, extending far away inland, a dreary suc- cession of dusky sand-banks and oozes, backed by the snowy outline of distant hills. The tide being now low, we had to. 'THE LAST ; -WINGED GOOSE TRYING TO HIDE ON THE BARE SAND. launch the punt over some two hundred yards of sand and shingle—no easy matter with a craft some twenty-two feet long and so heavy as to require the full strength of my puntsman and myself to lift her on to the launching-cari-iage. Moreover, the sand was soft, and the wheels sank in places up to the axles, while ever and anon they ran against a half- hidden boulder. However, the morning was intensely cold— snow lying a foot deep down to high-water mark—so the hard work was not unwelcome, for it set the blood tingling through our veins. There is a certain strange weirdness about these. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929. London : Gurney and Jackson
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