The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... nest , had hatched them , and that when this is the case they get the start of those that build new ones by ten days or a fortnight . He speaks with some degree of triumph to having ricked his meadow hay in delicate order , and that ...
... nest , had hatched them , and that when this is the case they get the start of those that build new ones by ten days or a fortnight . He speaks with some degree of triumph to having ricked his meadow hay in delicate order , and that ...
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... nest - like bower ; * Or where the hermit hangs the straw - clad cell , + Emerging gently from the leafy dell , * A kind of arbour on the side of a hill . A grotesque building , contrived by a young gentleman , who used on occasion to ...
... nest - like bower ; * Or where the hermit hangs the straw - clad cell , + Emerging gently from the leafy dell , * A kind of arbour on the side of a hill . A grotesque building , contrived by a young gentleman , who used on occasion to ...
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... nest - trees , and with sedulous care Repairs her wicker eyrie , tempest - torn . The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe , best pledge of future crop : With glee the gardener eyes his smoking beds ; E'en pining ...
... nest - trees , and with sedulous care Repairs her wicker eyrie , tempest - torn . The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe , best pledge of future crop : With glee the gardener eyes his smoking beds ; E'en pining ...
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... nest upon nest , in perfect security , till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled . It was in the month of February , when those birds usually sit . The saw was applied to the butt , the wedges were inserted into ...
... nest upon nest , in perfect security , till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled . It was in the month of February , when those birds usually sit . The saw was applied to the butt , the wedges were inserted into ...
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... nest and sat again . The young ones were brought to life in September , and were able , early in October , to leave the nest for the spout or the roof of the house . They took a short flight across the court , but were too weak to ...
... nest and sat again . The young ones were brought to life in September , and were able , early in October , to leave the nest for the spout or the roof of the house . They took a short flight across the court , but were too weak to ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn beech bees breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus LYON Biblioth male manner March March 26 MARKWICK migration mild naturalist nest never night observed Palais des Arts pheasant plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallows swarm swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees village warm weather WHITE wild wind wings winter woods wren young