For the Birds: An Uncommon GuideU of Minnesota Press |
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... spread on the ground or in a low tray is a good choice for juncoes , Mourning Doves , and sometimes grouse . Blue Jays and squirrels are especially fond of peanuts . Bald Eagles winter as far north as Alaska , gathering. Notes January.
... spread on the ground or in a low tray is a good choice for juncoes , Mourning Doves , and sometimes grouse . Blue Jays and squirrels are especially fond of peanuts . Bald Eagles winter as far north as Alaska , gathering. Notes January.
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... Sometimes the eagle carries the whole thing off , but sometimes it just picks at it a bit , leaving the bones and head as a gratuity for fine service and an excellent meal . 4 Uncontrollable shivering is evidence of hypother- mia in ...
... Sometimes the eagle carries the whole thing off , but sometimes it just picks at it a bit , leaving the bones and head as a gratuity for fine service and an excellent meal . 4 Uncontrollable shivering is evidence of hypother- mia in ...
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... sometimes give us opportunity to discover firsthand . Many birds of the Far North are unafraid of humans , but the Pine Grosbeak is uniquely tame when approached . The first one I ever saw caught my attention by whistling from a bare ...
... sometimes give us opportunity to discover firsthand . Many birds of the Far North are unafraid of humans , but the Pine Grosbeak is uniquely tame when approached . The first one I ever saw caught my attention by whistling from a bare ...
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... sometimes spend the sea- son in my living room . On sunny days , these left - behind birds gather in the warm patch of sunshine on the carpet , and , like wind - up sundials , move with the sun throughout the day . When I hold one up to ...
... sometimes spend the sea- son in my living room . On sunny days , these left - behind birds gather in the warm patch of sunshine on the carpet , and , like wind - up sundials , move with the sun throughout the day . When I hold one up to ...
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... sometimes lighting right beside a trapper and poking holes in his pelts . Gray Jays enter tents to carry off anything remotely edible , including candles . Although Gray Jays live in the North Woods year - round , some winters they ...
... sometimes lighting right beside a trapper and poking holes in his pelts . Gray Jays enter tents to carry off anything remotely edible , including candles . Although Gray Jays live in the North Woods year - round , some winters they ...
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Página 23 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Página 14 - THERE WAS A LITTLE MAN THEEE was a little man and he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead ; He went to the brook, and saw a little duck, And shot it through the head, head, head.
Página 12 - I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Página 17 - Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome. Some keep the Sabbath in surplice; I just wear my wings, And instead of tolling the bell for church, Our little sexton sings. God preaches, - a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along!
Página 14 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.