Identifier: birdsthroughyear00thom (find matches)
Title: Birds through the year
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Thomas, William Beach, Sir, 1868-1957 Collet, Anthony Keeling, 1877-
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London, Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack, ltd
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ROCK-PIPIT the same appearance and restless ways. It breeds amongthe hanging rocks, hiding its nest behind some screen ofwhite-flowered campion, or among the cushions of pink sea-thrift ; and it hovers with a wavering song-flight in theblackest gulfs. In the warm climate of Cornwall and otherparts of the west, the sea-cliffs are bright in spring with awealth of flowers and vivid verdure. Thrift stains wholeheadlands pink with its clustered heads ; sea-campion clingsin broad white masses, and bluebells cover acre after acre ofthe hanging slopes. Gorse burns golden in the hollows ; and
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SEA-CLIFFS IN NESTING TIME 145 may-bushes on the upper ledges gleam almost as white asthe restless surf below. The young leaves of the ivy spreada vivid mantle overthe rocks; and bedsof wood - sedge andiris fill the gaps be-tween the clippedthorn-beds where therabbits breed. Thesame cliffs later insummer, when thespring flowers andleaves have faded andmost of the sea-birdshave gone, give apoor idea of theirwealth and brilliancein May. Of all theyoung life of spring,almost the only traceis a few fledged gulls,full grown, but wear-ing the mottled plum-age of immaturity, andstill uttering the thin nestling cry that seems so dispropor-tionate to their size.

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