Nature Near London
Autor: Jefferies, Richard
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ISBN: 9781443211659
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Excerpt: BY RICHARD JEFFERIES AUTHOR OF ""THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS,"" ""THE OPEN AIR,"" ETC. FINE-PAPER EDITION LONDON CHATTO WINDUS 1905 [iv] Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson Co. At the Ballantyne Press [v] PREFACE It is usually supposed to be necessary to go far into the country to find wild birds and animals in sufficient numbers to be pleasantly studied. Such was certainly my own impression till circumstances led me, for the convenience of access to London, to reside for awhile about twelve miles from town. There my preconceived views on the subject were quite overthrown by the presence of as much bird-life as I had been accustomed to in distant fields and woods. First, as the spring began, came crowds of chiffchaffs and willow-wrens, filling the furze with ceaseless flutterings. Presently a nightingale sang in a hawthorn bush only just on the other side of the road. One morning, on looking out of window, there was a hen pheasant in the furze almost underneath. Rabbits often came out into the spaces of sward between the bushes. The furze itself became a broad surface of gold, beautiful to look down upon, with islands of tenderest birch green interspersed, and willows in which the sedge-reedling chattered. They used to say in the country that cuckoos were getting scarce, but here the notes of the cuckoo echoed all day long, and the birds often flew over the house. Doves cooed, blackbirds whistled, thrushes sang, jays called, wood-pigeons uttered the old[vi] familiar notes in the little copse hard by. Even a heron went over now and then, and in the evening from the window I could hear partridges calling each other to roost. Along the roads and lanes the quantity and variety of life in the hedges was really astonishing. Magpies, jays, woodpeckersboth green and piedkestrels hovering overhead, sparrow-hawks darting over gateways, hares by the clover, weasels on the mounds, stoats at the edge of the corn. I missed but two birds, the corncrake and the grasshopper lark,...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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