Image: Pictures of bird life - on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh (1903) (14750236595)

Description: Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches) Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Lodge, R. B Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: )etweenthe thumbs, ean produee the * AVhoo-whoo to perfeetion. Bird Life in a Suburban Parish I5;j The first attempt l)r()iii>lit tlicm from a distant tree, tillthey settled just ovei* our iieads, where we eould see theirforms hy the moonlight against the sky. Tile gallant little Sparrow-hawk is not nearly so eommonas the Kestrel, and I lune not seen a nest nearer thanEpping Forest. Many are hiought to me in the autunuiby bird-eatehers, whieh ha\ e been eaught in the aet ofattacking their call-birds, I think the majority of them aretaken in the neighbourhood of Xorthaw. Oeeasionaliy thel)ird-eatehers take Kestrels in the same way. One day I hada beautiful little cock Kestrel brought to me. To save itfrom the fate of being killed and set up in a public-housebar, which is what its captor pui-j:)osed to do with it, if I Text Appearing After Image: IIl.n PiiiiA.sAM (Pluisiainis culchiciis) u.n Nest 154 Pictures of Bird Life did not buy it, 1 i>(ive liim wliat he asked, took it to thedoor, and released it before his eyes, to his great indigiuitionand disgust. That was the seeond I had restored to hl)erty,and gladly I watched its Hight, and rejoiced at its narrowescape from the hideous fate in store for it. Herons, witliin tlie memory of at least one inhabitant. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Pictures of bird life - on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh (1903) (14750236595)
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