Image: Pictures of bird life - on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh (1903) (14770190923)

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: Xkst cif Dipper (Cii/c/us aqiiaticiis). was wading the ri\er, and only left it at last wliile I wasgetting the camera into position below lier. ilie whitebreast of the bird is a very conspicuous object among A Week in Derbyshire ;$(;.> the stones and boulders, and is \isible from a considerable Text Appearing After Image: Nest of Diitlk yLuulus aqitaticus) in a rKLii-biL.MP, distance. The fliglit is very Kingfisher-like, swift and arrowy,with quick beats of the short rounded wings. Its chosen liaunts are certainly the loveliest and most 366 Pictures of Bird Life ))ieturesque spots to be found in Britain, being restrictedas tliey entirely are to the wild rocky glens and dalesof Devonshire, Derbyshire, AVales, Yorkshire, and the Xorth.In such places the Dipper is a resident, living amid theswirl and dash of the rinming stream and the spray of thewaterfall, in company witli the Sandpiper and the Kingfisher. Bridges possess a great attraction for the Dipper, andI was shown one nest among the iron girders whichsupported a small roadside bridge, close to the ^illage.Overhanging banks and amid the roots of trees are alsoprobable sites for their nests. While I was engaged in photographing one nest on anold tree-stump overhanging a small islet, just below thejunction of the Dove and the Manifold, my friend wass 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) (14770190923)
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