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

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)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
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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.

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