Summer Birds Of Flathead Lake (1901) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: day's collection included several males of this beautiful species. At that early date for warbler nidification, a pair was observe diligently caring for the wants of their young in a nest in a large pine, far out toward the extremity of a long horizontal branch; and as late as July 2 a nest was found containing young birds recently hatched. The finding of the first nest with eggs of this interesting warbler was an event which I recall with pleasure. Like many good finds of the collector, it was by the rarest fortune that this one habitation of Dendroica auduboni was taken, for though the swampy area was thoroughly searched, no other nest of this species rewarded our eager quest; however, another nest with young birds was found in a different locality several days later. On June 27, while hunting for soras in a small grassy opening in the swamp, my attention was attracted by the peculiar chirping of a pair of western evening grosbeaks flying overhead. Noticing that they flew rapidly in one direction, I thought perhaps there was a nest in their line of flight, or that their objective point might be their nesting place, a desideratum far too valuable to be neglected. Entering the thick growth of slender willows enclosing the grassy slough, I had proceeded but a few steps when I espied a small grayish mass up in a crotch of one of the willow stems. Without being certain that it was a nest, I shook the stem, when a sitting bird flew downward obliquely and was rapidly making away among the bases of surrounding trees as I caught her by a fortunate shot. The prize proved to be a female of Dendroica auduboni, and I was not long in ascending to the nest and securing it, with its five fresh eggs. It is needless to add that 1 was not rewarded so happily in my quest for the nest of the g...

General

Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	November 2009
Authors:	Perley Milton Silloway
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	120
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-71753-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-71753-1
Barcode:	9781120717535

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