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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mc had omitted to bring any climbing-irons.The whole time we were there the two Buzzards weresailing round in circles, and the hillsides resounded withtheir plaintive, mewing cries. After some time a Goshawk,which proved to be nesting in the vicinity, daslied out inpursuit, and with sliarp and angry cry and menacing atti-tude fairly dro\e away for a while the Buzzards from theneigbourhood of their own nest. Tliis Goshawks nest we afterwards visited, and found itempty. It liad also been robbed; for we saw the egg—desthied for Copenhagen with tlie rest. The culprit in thisbusiness was the son of the head forester, who. ))orn andbred in tlie forest, could climb like any cat. Xo wonder the larger birds are getting scarce,—theBlack Storks reduced to one or, at the most, two pairs forthe whole of Denmark, the Sea-eagle to one pair, andthe Kites, Ospreys, and Goshawks gradually diminishingin numbers ; for Denmark has few extensive forest districts,except on some of the numerous islands.
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Xest of Buzzard (Biiko vulgaris) 23 SoJ- Pictures of Bird Life A Raveii.s nest, wliicli probably contained young, we didnot trouble to go up to : and one of several Hooded Crowscontained five sat-on eggs—other nests being empty andliolding young birds: ugly, inicanny-looking little wretchesthey Avere too. The Hoodie is here extremely abundantand very familiar. Though so shy and wary when inEngland during the winter months, here, in Denmark, theHoodies nest alono- the roadsides, sometimes in ridiculouslvsmall trees ; and round the farmhouses, in the little beltof trees which serve as a shelter from the cold winds,there is generally a nest of either the ^Magpie or HoodedCrow. In every direction the birds burly figure is a con-spicuous object in the landscape—that is, in the woodedparts. Some parts of Denmark, particularly in A\est Jutland,are almost de^oid of trees : and there the Hooded Crow isnot to be seen. Two days, or really two half-days, were not enough forthis most interesti

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