A Year with the Birds Third Edition, Enlarged
CHAPTER IV.
A Midland Village. Garden and Meadow.
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 years—A Black Redstart on an ugly wall—Cuckoo and Robin’s nest—Ingenious Nuthatches—Spotted Flycatcher; his peculiarities—Allotments and Rooks—Green Sandpiper in the brook; occurrence in midwinter—Habits of young birds—Rooks hostile to intruders—Long-tailed Tits on the ice 111