Identifier: amongwaterfowlob00job (find matches)
Title: Among the water-fowl; observation, adventure, photography. A popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky mountains
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Job, Herbert Keightley, 1864-1933
Subjects: Water birds Birds
Publisher: London, Wm. Heinemann
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Take the train for the coast when thewildest gale ot the winter is raging, and there willbe sights to stir the most sluggish blood. And asfor sea-birds, there are few indeed in summer, ascompared with the ever-changing panorama of fowlthat wing their way over the unutterable wildnessof ice-bound bay and restless wintry sea. Can onebe a thorough ornithologist and not know the sea-fowl ? Most of us must begin with the door-yardbirds. But as the desire grows tor more of thisinteresting bird-lore, we may expect that it will leadus to visit mountain and forest and shore, even thewintry ocean itself, whenever and wherever thewildest of the feathered tribes are to be found. q6 PART III. OCEAN WANDERERS (Slicanvatcrs, Skuas, Petrels, Plialaropes) I SHALL never forget the day on which beganmy intimacy with a class of birds of whose existenceI had been hardly more than aware—birds that
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THE REALM OF THE OCEAN WANDERERSOFF EAST POINT, MAGDALEN ISLANDS, FAR FROM HUMAN HABITATION make the billows of ocean their home. It was thetwelfth ot July. The first gray of the morningfound me, with a party of friends, scudding downthe bay of Chatham, Mass., in a fishing sloop. Alight south-west breeze and a racing tide swept us 97 Among the Water-Fowj, out over the agitated waters of the harbour-bar, thanwhich there is none more dangerous on our coast.Then the liery ball of the sun rose Irom the ocean,dispelling the morning mist, and drying the cold,wet decks of the lishing-lieet. Off to the south-eastwe sped, crossing the track oi various coasting-vessels four or live miles off shore, losing sight ofland a dozen miles out, and yet pressing on, till,after about four hours sail, we were some twenty-five miles off the Cape. Here dwelt the denizensof the deep. Majestic among them all were theFinback Whales, a band ot which were playingabout, as though for oar special amusement. Sev-er

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