Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches)
Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lodge, R. B
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ng some good positions, in spite of a very strongwind which was lilowing at the time. In the same locality are also innnense numbers of Meadow-pipits, which feed all the year round about the Httle poolson the numerous insects so abundant in such places. Hereyou can see them to advantage when they are busilyengaged feeding or chasing one another, which they areso fond of doiup-. o Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 99 The Tree-pipit is more frequently roiiiul in the fields,and seems to he particuhirly addieted to railway emhankments,where its nestmay frequentlyb e f o u 11 d .Unlike theMeadow-pipit,whieh is resi-dent, the Tree-pipit migratesbefore the ap-p r o a e h o fwinter. The Red-baeked Shrikeis a eommons p e e i e s allround thenorth of Lon-don. On thetopmost twigsof the tallhedge in whiehthe nest isplaced it sits on the watch for insect prey ; for though it will kill smallbirds and mice, by far the greater part of its food is com-posed of beetles and other insects. The castings show
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Nest of Hawfinch (Coccu/Ziraiistes zli/i^cins). 100 Pictures of Bird Life abundance of beetle wing-eases. Tliese are generally eauglitby the bird pouncing down on tlieni on tlie ground. Duringhaymaking operations it is keenly ()bscr\ant of insects dis-turbed by the machines, swooping down on wliatex er itmay see and carrying it to the young, wliicli are fed longafter tlicy )ia\e left the nest. All the Shrikes have acurious and characteristic habit of mo\ing the tail roundand round in a circular fashion, cjuite unlike the usual up-and-doMu motion in vogue with most birds. Every garden of any size round London contains a pairor more of Spotted Flycatchers. These, from the vantage-point of croquet-hoop, dahlia-stick, or teimis-net. spend thewhole long summers day in catcliing Hies. Here tliey siton tlie watcli. repeatedly flying off to catcli passing insectswith an audible snap of tlie beak, returning generally to thesame place to wait for another. The Sj^otted Flycatcheris one of the la

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