Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals
How I came to notice birds—Oxford favourable to bird-life—Late lingerers in October—Migration and pugnacity of Robins—The Bullfinch and the buds—Parsons’ Pleasure and the Cherwell—Kingfishers rare in the summer term—Colouring of the Kingfisher—The Gray Wagtail at the weir; its...
It might naturally be supposed, that an Oxford tutor, who finds his vocation in the classics and his amusement in the birds, would be in the way of noticing what ancient authors...
10. CHAPTER III.When the University year is over, usually about mid-June, responsibilities cease almost entirely for a few weeks; and it is sometimes possible to leave the lowlands of England a...
13. CHAPTER VI.As I observed in a former chapter, the movements of the birds of the Alps are, or ought to be, of very great interest to the ornithologist, owing partly to the wonderful variety...
9. CHAPTER II.All the birds mentioned in the last chapter are residents in Oxford, in greater or less numbers according to the season, except the Fieldfares and Redwings, the Grey Wagtail, an...
12. CHAPTER V.Beyond the Yantle we come upon a line of railway, running down from Chipping Norton to join the main line to Worcester. Just as the waters of the Evenlode are reinforced at this...
8. CHAPTER I.For several years past I have contrived, even on the busiest or the rainiest Oxford mornings, to steal out for twenty minutes or half an hour soon after breakfast, and in the Br...
15. ii. 345) that in Eastern Europe it is compelled by the cold to migrate,some finding their way to Egypt, and therefore necessarily crossing the Ægean, or passing over Greece or the western coast of Asia Minor. I think it is a fair guess that those k...
11. CHAPTER IV.It is a curious fact that, when I return from Switzerland, that I am at first unable to discover anything in our English midlands but a dead level of fertile plain. The eye has...
7. CHAPTER VII.Virgil’s haunts in Italy, in boyhood and manhood—Virgil true to nature—Pigeons in his poems—Crane and Stork; their migrations—Corvus and cornix—Swans—The ‘alcyon,’ in Latin and...
3. CHAPTER III.The Alpine pastures in June—Ornithologists and the Alps—Johann Anderegg, a peasant naturalist—Number of species in Switzerland; abundance of food—Migration, complete and partial...
1. CHAPTER I.How I came to notice birds—Oxford favourable to bird-life—Late lingerers in October—Migration and pugnacity of Robins—The Bullfinch and the buds—Parsons’ Pleasure and the Cherwe...
4. CHAPTER IV.Description of the vale of the Evenlode—Situation of the village; variety of scenery—Movements of the birds in the district—A bird-haunted garden—Redstart; its increase of late...
2. CHAPTER II.Departure of winter birds—Warblers; explanation of the term—Different kinds of warblers—Tree-warblers—Chiff-chaff’s arrival—Willow-warbler’s song and nest—Blackcap and Garden-wa...
5. CHAPTER V.Railways favourable to birds—Whinchat and Stonechat—Peculiarities of the Buntings—Nests by the railway—Ring-ousel—Song of the Tree-pipit—Pipits, Larks, Wagtails—Predatory birds...
6. CHAPTER VI.Geography of Switzerland—Bird-catching on the passes—Birds on the Brünig Pass—The Hasli-Thal—Crossbills—The Gadmen-Thal and Stein-alp—Migration on the Susten-pass—Hospenthal—Dep...