A Year with the Birds Third Edition, Enlarged
CHAPTER II.
Oxford: Spring and Summer.
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-warbler; their songs compared—The two Whitethroats at Parsons’ Pleasure; how to distinguish them—River-warblers; comparative rarity of Reed-warbler; his song compared with Sedge-warbler’s—The Redstart and pollard willows—Summer habits of Oxford Sparrows—Flycatcher and other birds in the Parks 35