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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, until bythe time Andalucia was reached many Swallows and JMartinswere noticed perching on the stations and telegraph-wires.Xow and then a Bee-eater might be seen, and cactus hedgesand aloes bordered the line. Beggars infest all the stations, which are quite open toall comers, cripples of all sorts and descriptions, and pedlarsshout their appeals and call attention to their wares. Someof them sell water— Agua, agua ; others oranges, which arecheap and delicious : and boys run about witli trays of fearsome-looking cakes and eatables, of whose composition I knownothing, nor want to—most unholy-looking compounds, whicliwould, I shoidd imagine, make very excellent fly-traps. The herdsmen and shepherds are invariably armed withlong rusty guns slung on their backs, and mostly clad inleather from head to foot, looking much more like brigandsthan honest men. Appearances are, however, deceptive; forfurther experience showed that tliis class of men wereinvariably very polite and obliging.
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18 274 Pictures of Bird Life At Gibraltar I waited ten days before the yaeht alTi^ed,being delayed by bad weather coming from Cyprus. Duringthe whole of this time I applied in vain for permissionto photograph at the adjutants office. In spite of repeatedpromises I never got it, and had to lea\e without )ia\inghad a chance of doing many things that I wanted to. Swarms of Kestrels clustered like bees up and downthe rugged face of the stujDcndous cliff of the north front.I was never tired of watching them soaring o\erhead andlistening to their wild, chattering cries. It is possible toclimb up the sloping foot of the cliff, and there I couldsit and see them hovering or perching on the ledges andcrevices of the perpendicular Kock above. In the holes andcrannies were many pigeons, and towards e\ening the Swiftswould come tumbling out, to wheel around the narrowstreets, uttering their weird screams. The Kestrels, I imagine,must feed largely on beetles, no other food being plentifulenough to

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