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admire allow bark beautiful bills birds of passage bough breast build busy called carrion crow catch CHIMNEY SWALLOW colour cousin creature cuckoo dare dear eggs EIDER DUCK FALCON fancy feathers fellow FERN OWL gannet garden golden eagle GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN ground handsome happy hatched head hear heard hole Iceland insects island keep kind LARK leave little bills little blue tit LITTLE BROWN WREN little thing live LONG-TAILED TIT look mate morning moss neighbours nest never osprey ourselves parents parus major peep peregrine falcon perhaps pleasant plumage poor little POWIS pretty prey race rear Red-breast RICKERBY Robin rock rooks Scotland seen Shetland Isles sing sitting sometimes song sorry storm petrel strength and swiftness summer suppose sure tail talk tell told tree tremely trochilus warm whip-poor-Will wings winter wish wonderful wood woodpecker young
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Page 9 - the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in true majesty.
Page 39 - Oft did the cliffs reverberate the sound Of parted fragments tumbling from on high; And from the summit of that craggy mound The perching eagle oft was heard to cry, Or on resounding
Page 138 - took two half-fledged young, and placed them in that of another which was sitting on five eggs. She soon turned them both out. The place where the nest was, not being far from the ground, they were little injured ; and the male, observing their helpless situation, began to feed them with
Page 139 - The yellow-throat returned, while I waited near the spot, and darted into her nest; but returned immediately, and perched upon a bough near the place, remained a minute or two, and entered it again ; returned and disappeared. In ten minutes she returned with the male. They chattered with great agitation for