. Birds through the year . ions of fear, but a blind demand for food—the primitive germ of all language. Young thrushes andblackbirds utter a metallic squawk ; young robins a kindredbut shriller cry. Beforethey leave the nest broodsof young starlings utter arhythmical strident choruswhich rises as they hearthe parent birds approach,and dies down again as itdeparts with its low noteof satisfied activity. Broodsof white owls under thechurch roof raise a louderand harsher tumult of thesame kind; sparrows inthe ivy cheep more shrilly ;and young martins in theeaves make a murmuringstir. Some of the
. Birds through the year . ions of fear, but a blind demand for food—the primitive germ of all language. Young thrushes andblackbirds utter a metallic squawk ; young robins a kindredbut shriller cry. Beforethey leave the nest broodsof young starlings utter arhythmical strident choruswhich rises as they hearthe parent birds approach,and dies down again as itdeparts with its low noteof satisfied activity. Broodsof white owls under thechurch roof raise a louderand harsher tumult of thesame kind; sparrows inthe ivy cheep more shrilly ;and young martins in theeaves make a murmuringstir. Some of the noisiestof all woodland birds asthey gain their feathers are little woodpeckers. Young green woodpeckers shout fromtheir hole, in some rotten beech or oak bough, so loud thatthey can be heard for a hundred and fifty yards. Their cryis more like that of the adult great spotted woodpecker,or the wryneck, than the free laughing note of their of the brood often climbs to the mouth of the hole, and () . 2&. YOUNG GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKERS 202 SUMMER peers in the entry as it calls. Young great spotted wood-peckers make a loud but more confused din, more like theburden of the starlings brood ; it is curious to see the boldly-pied woodpecker cling beneath the hole, and feed the youngheads clustering in the door. Young cuckoos pursue theirpuny foster-parents with a petulant cry too thin for theirburly bodies; it seems as though they had stolen a younghedge-sparrows or meadow-pipits voice, as well as itsheritage. The more we listen at midsummer, the more thewhole world simmers with the voices of callow nestlings
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