. Birds of the wave and woodland. Illustrated by Charles Whymper and others . and doesany bird thatbreathes Englishair deserve morerespect for its delightful confidence in man, more assistance in its timesof stress and want, than the ereat tit ? But it is not abird that many people think of when they try to rememberthe lovable creatures that haunt their garden. For onething, it is so restless that it seldom remains in sightmore than an instant, and, as often as not, its crisp brightcall is the only sign that we have of its presence as it. THE TIT OF ROWFANT I30 BIRDS OF THE WAVE AND WOODLAND f
. Birds of the wave and woodland. Illustrated by Charles Whymper and others . and doesany bird thatbreathes Englishair deserve morerespect for its delightful confidence in man, more assistance in its timesof stress and want, than the ereat tit ? But it is not abird that many people think of when they try to rememberthe lovable creatures that haunt their garden. For onething, it is so restless that it seldom remains in sightmore than an instant, and, as often as not, its crisp brightcall is the only sign that we have of its presence as it. THE TIT OF ROWFANT I30 BIRDS OF THE WAVE AND WOODLAND flits to and fro after insects among- the tree-tops, droppingsuddenly on to the ground after a falling caterpillar, andas suddenly skipping up branch by branch to the height ithad left. Whenever heard, even in the depth of winter, it ischeery, crying out with just as brisk and hearty a voice aswhen the summer sun was shining. CHAPTER V The Owl—The Magpie—The Kestrel or Windhover—HauntsOF the Heron —Bird-Destroyers, the Gamekeeper andNaturalist CHAPTER V Sad Aziola ! * many an eventideThy music I had heard By wood and stream, meadow and mountain side,And fields and marshes zvide,—Such as nor voice, nor lute, nor wind, nor birdThe soul ever stirred:Unlike and far sweeter than them Aziola from that moment ILoved thee and thy sad cry. Shelley. Another bird that visits country-houses with unboundedconfidence in man, if man would only recognise it, is the many people know that if they will put little barrels upi
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