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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or is known to thepowers that l)e, lie does not stand much chance of doinganytliing, beyond going o\er the galleries in charge of asergeant and inspecting tlie lighthouse. I could have for-gone these sights with much equanimity if I could have seenthe Bonellis Eagles which liave nested for many years withinsight of one of tlie signal stations, or the Ospreys nest, orthe celebrated apes. As it was, these were forbidden pleasm-es; and beingunable to do anything on the Hock, I crossed oxev toAlgerciras, and went inland a short distance by train to somecork-woods, at a place called Almoraima. Leaving the little station, I found myself in very Eng-lish-looking country ; tlie light, sandy soil was covered withbracken, here and there were small reed-grown lagoons andswamps, and from the oak- and cork-trees could be heard the Pink-pink of chaffinches and the notes of many Titmiceand Blackbirds. From yonder rose-spangled thicket entwinedwith honeysuckle came the joyous melody of a Nightingale,
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278 Pictures of Bird Life aiul Cuckoos announced tlieir arrival in every directic^n. Butamong these sounds were mingled the liquid notes of theBee-eaters, as they poised in mid-air or perched on somebare twig on the watch for passing insects. )More conspicuous still on the bare branches of the lowerbushes were the AVoodchat Shrikes, their white breasts shiningin the sun. and showing off the rich chestnut of head andback. They are very bold and familiar, much more so than the B ee-eaters. whichdash off atthe slightestattcm))t at a11 e a r a p -proach. Sev-eral of thesegraceful andbrightly col-oured birdswere h()\er- ing in front of some holes in a high bank : but so cai-lv inthe season—mid-April—it did not seem worth while to tryto dig out the holes. AVhile watching to find out if thebirds were entering them at all. I saw tlie tail of a big lizardsticking out of one of them. Lizards and snakes are exceedingly numerous, and run toa very large size, lioth are credited with dexouring

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