. Bird-land echoes; . Where Runs the Tide, 199 time the sound was even more unlike the ordinarycries or calls of birds than in the early evening, andwas calculated to cause the superstitious to weavestrange stories of ghost-like visitations. At home I have often heard these plovers tremu-lous notes, charged with superabundant sweetness,when the birds were on their way to other them, but they were so far in cloud-land thatI never saw Yellow-legged Tattler. According to my experience with the featheredfolk about where I live, the yellow-leg is pre-emi-nently a song-bird. The t
. Bird-land echoes; . Where Runs the Tide, 199 time the sound was even more unlike the ordinarycries or calls of birds than in the early evening, andwas calculated to cause the superstitious to weavestrange stories of ghost-like visitations. At home I have often heard these plovers tremu-lous notes, charged with superabundant sweetness,when the birds were on their way to other them, but they were so far in cloud-land thatI never saw Yellow-legged Tattler. According to my experience with the featheredfolk about where I live, the yellow-leg is pre-emi-nently a song-bird. The time when I eagerly pur-sued it along the river-shore and brought it downto the mud-flats by cunning imitation of its call hasgone by, but as long as life remains I will nevertire of watching it about the ponds, nor forego thepleasure of listening to its flute-like whistle as it passesto and fro between the river and the meadows. 200 Bird-Land Echoes. These river-shore birds come early in the spring,but do not tarry, and not until late in July andthroughout August do they become the long mud-flats that are exposed at low tideoffer them excellent feeding-grounds, and duringthe early morning they are often very numerousand noisy; but knowing to what dangers they areexposed, they soon take refuge in the tall grass,the wild rice, or wherever there is shelter, and thechances are that; you will see but little of tide-water t
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