. Bird watching . (or something remarkably like it). Quar-r-r-r. Quor-r-r-r-r-r (very prolonged, and deep, as in remonstrance).Quow-yow, or , shook, shook (soft and quickly repeated. Have heard it uttered by rooks when flying home belated, after the great majority had settled in the roosting-trees).Tchar. Tchar-r-r (with a little roll in it).Tchu or tew. Tchoo-oo (very deep and guttural).The peculiar burring note (uttered, but by no means always, when the birds swoop down on to trees, especially the roosting-trees. It is not heard very frequently).A peculiar sound like a kind of
. Bird watching . (or something remarkably like it). Quar-r-r-r. Quor-r-r-r-r-r (very prolonged, and deep, as in remonstrance).Quow-yow, or , shook, shook (soft and quickly repeated. Have heard it uttered by rooks when flying home belated, after the great majority had settled in the roosting-trees).Tchar. Tchar-r-r (with a little roll in it).Tchu or tew. Tchoo-oo (very deep and guttural).The peculiar burring note (uttered, but by no means always, when the birds swoop down on to trees, especially the roosting-trees. It is not heard very frequently).A peculiar sound like a kind of bleat, with a very complaining tone in short, sharp, single note, much higher than the ordinary kind of grating scream, much higher than the usual hoarse mew, or miaul almost, as though a rook were trying to imitate a cat, or a cat a liquid castanet-note in the throat, suggesting the burr, but not quite other curious little sounds in the throat, some of them clicks. ■^r-^ CHAPTER XII Watching Blackbirds, Nightingales,Sand/inartins, etc. JjIRDS are never more charming to watch than whenthey are building their nests, and, of all our Britishnest-builders, few, perhaps, build more charmingly thanthe blackbird. It is the hen alone that collects andshapes the materials, but the male bird accompaniesher in every excursion either to or from the she is busied in its construction he sits in atree or a bush near by, and, on her leaving it for freshleaves or moss, follows her in a series of flights fromtree to tree, and, finally, down on to the ground, wherethe two hop about, closely in each others is seldom that the hen flies at once to where shemeans to collect her materials, though time after timeit may be at the same place. Usually she flies pastthe tree—all beautiful in spring and early morning—where the cock sits, and perches in another at somelittle distance beyond it. There you may lose sightof her, but as soon as
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