A Year with the Birds Third Edition, Enlarged
CHAPTER V.
A Midland Village: Railway and Woodland.
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 of the woods—Interview with a Grasshopper Warbler; its “reel”—Beauty of the Nightingale; its habits and song—Song-birds of the woods—Woodpeckers—Birds of the hills—Local migrations during the year 144