Mountain, Meadow, & Mere: A Series of Outdoor Sketches of Sport, Scenery, Adventures, and Natural History ...Henry S. King & Company, 1873 - 226 стор. |
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... bird - nesting foray , when a chosen friend and I had rambled far from the town , up beyond the waving uplands into the heart of the Welsh border hills , coming upon a lonely tarn from which a heron slowly flew at our approach , and ...
... bird - nesting foray , when a chosen friend and I had rambled far from the town , up beyond the waving uplands into the heart of the Welsh border hills , coming upon a lonely tarn from which a heron slowly flew at our approach , and ...
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... birds have sought the shelter of the rushes , and I begin to feel quite uncanny , when I am startled by a sudden twitch of the loop of running line which I am absently twisting about my finger . See the float has disappeared ; strike ...
... birds have sought the shelter of the rushes , and I begin to feel quite uncanny , when I am startled by a sudden twitch of the loop of running line which I am absently twisting about my finger . See the float has disappeared ; strike ...
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... buoyantly as other water - birds . We have it on our meres all the year round , but , in the daytime at least , it keeps scrupulously far from land and in the deeper water . It is much oftener seen on this mere The Shropshire Meres 19.
... buoyantly as other water - birds . We have it on our meres all the year round , but , in the daytime at least , it keeps scrupulously far from land and in the deeper water . It is much oftener seen on this mere The Shropshire Meres 19.
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... birds breed in great abundance here , and their nests are worthy of description . Three or four tall reeds are chosen , and supported by these , at some dis- tance from the water , the nest is made . It is sin- gularly deep in structure ...
... birds breed in great abundance here , and their nests are worthy of description . Three or four tall reeds are chosen , and supported by these , at some dis- tance from the water , the nest is made . It is sin- gularly deep in structure ...
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... birds . In a keeper's house I have seen a splendid specimen of a peregrine falcon , which he had shot some time ago . He also informed me that he had killed an osprey here , and that another had been seen haunting one of the meres ...
... birds . In a keeper's house I have seen a splendid specimen of a peregrine falcon , which he had shot some time ago . He also informed me that he had killed an osprey here , and that another had been seen haunting one of the meres ...
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