Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals

Birds of the wave and woodland

THE BIRDS OF THE MONTHS--SOME RARE BIRDS AND SOME COMMON--JANUARY AND THE FIELDFARE--FEBRURARY AND THE ROOK--MARCH, APRIL, MAY, WITH THE THRUSH, SWALLOW AND NIGHTINGALE--THE TERRORS OF MIGRATION--JUNE AND THE RING-DOVE--A WOOD-PIGEON PROBLEM--THE DOTTEREL--EVENING VOICES: THE...

Chapters

20. CHAPTER VII

So writes Michael Drayton in the sixteenth century, and how true an observer of Nature the old poet was is proved by the words of our latest ornithologist: "It alights on some t...

11. CHAPTER II

It is easy, taking a score of birds, to construct a bird-calendar, a zodiac of birds, that comes very near the actual truths, and almost exhausts the list of more notable land-f...

9. CHAPTER I

Indeed, if the superfluous songsters did not go away (and the Wild Birds' Protection Act remained in force), we should be smothered with thrushes. I know, for instance, of a lit...

18. CHAPTER VI.

"_The Eagle of the sea from Atlas soars_ _Or Teneriffe's hoar peak--_ _The watchful helmsman from the stern descries_ _And hails her course--_ _She mounts Alp-high and with her...

12. CHAPTER III

Once upon a time rooks were called crows, and as the latter had a very evil reputation, the former suffered for it. Nor is the confusion still extinct, for unfortunately there a...

14. CHAPTER IV

Which bird-voice in Nature is the most expressive? Is it the ringdove's happy crooning in the green depths of the woodland? or the nightingale's solitary lamenting under the col...

16. CHAPTER V

"_Sad Aziola![A] many an eventide_ _Thy music I had heard_ _By wood and stream, meadow and mountain side,_ _And fields and marshes wide,--_ _Such as nor voice, nor lute, nor win...

21. VOLUME II. _Paradise, Minor Poems._ Studies:

_The Spectator_ says:--"No man aiming at literary reputation can think his education complete unless he studies Dante, in translations or in the original. No book about Dante ha...

7. CHAPTER VII

2. CHAPTER II

THE BIRDS OF THE MONTHS--SOME RARE BIRDS AND SOME COMMON--JANUARY AND THE FIELDFARE--FEBRURARY AND THE ROOK--MARCH, APRIL, MAY, WITH THE THRUSH, SWALLOW AND NIGHTINGALE--THE TER...

10. CHAPTER II

THE BIRDS OF THE MONTHS--SOME RARE BIRDS AND SOME COMMON--JANUARY AND THE FIELDFARE--FEBRUARY AND THE ROOK--MARCH, APRIL, MAY, WITH THE THRUSH, SWALLOW AND NIGHTINGALE--THE TERR...

19. CHAPTER VII

1. CHAPTER I

8. CHAPTER I

6. CHAPTER VI

17. CHAPTER VI

5. CHAPTER V

4. CHAPTER IV

15. CHAPTER V

13. CHAPTER IV

3. CHAPTER III