Sand Dunes and Salt MarshesD. Estes, 1913 - 301 Seiten |
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... habits , lying con- cealed during the hours of daylight when their deadly enemy , man , stalks abroad . One of these night walkers is the Virginia or white - tailed deer , that charming animal which , thanks to the well - enforced ...
... habits , lying con- cealed during the hours of daylight when their deadly enemy , man , stalks abroad . One of these night walkers is the Virginia or white - tailed deer , that charming animal which , thanks to the well - enforced ...
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... but , although I occa- sionally saw deer in the daytime elsewhere , it was not until 1910 , owing largely to their nocturnal habits , that I actually saw the ani- DEER TRACKS . 1 mals in the dunes . I 40 SAND DUNES AND SALT MARSHES.
... but , although I occa- sionally saw deer in the daytime elsewhere , it was not until 1910 , owing largely to their nocturnal habits , that I actually saw the ani- DEER TRACKS . 1 mals in the dunes . I 40 SAND DUNES AND SALT MARSHES.
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... habits , as they have a custom of ejecting from their mouths pellets of partially digested food . These pellets are plentifully distributed in the dunes , especially in certain localities where the birds roost . They are one or two ...
... habits , as they have a custom of ejecting from their mouths pellets of partially digested food . These pellets are plentifully distributed in the dunes , especially in certain localities where the birds roost . They are one or two ...
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... habit of herring gulls leads to peculiar tracks . I refer to the fact that they not infrequently drag dead fish in tortuous courses from the upper beach down to the water . A dead hake eighteen inches long I found had been dragged one ...
... habit of herring gulls leads to peculiar tracks . I refer to the fact that they not infrequently drag dead fish in tortuous courses from the upper beach down to the water . A dead hake eighteen inches long I found had been dragged one ...
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... habit of herring gulls , as well as of crows , of dropping clams , sea - snails or crabs from a height in order to break their shells , accounts for the multitude of these objects both in the dunes and on marsh islands . As its prey ...
... habit of herring gulls , as well as of crows , of dropping clams , sea - snails or crabs from a height in order to break their shells , accounts for the multitude of these objects both in the dunes and on marsh islands . As its prey ...
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ancestry animal appear barn swallow bayberry beach beautiful bill black-grass breeding brown bushes called CASTLE HILL FARM Castle Neck clams close clumps coast color common crab creeks crows dark deer duck early edge estuaries fall feathers feet fish flight flock foot grass gray green ground grove gulls habit head heron high tide Hill horned lark horseshoe crab inches Ipswich sparrow Island Labrador land Lapland longspur MARSH HAY myrtle warbler nest night numbers occasionally pine piping plover PITCH PINES plant plover plumage rarely red-breasted merganser region River robin salt marshes sand dunes sandpiper sandy Savannah sparrow seals season seen shells shore birds side skunk snow bunting sometimes song species spot spring summer surface swim tail terns thatch tion toes tracks tree swallows watch waves wind wings winter yellow young
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Seite 81 - Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Seite 194 - tis palpable: low multitudinous stirring Upwinds through the woods; the little ones, softly conferring, Have settled my lord's to be looked for; so; they are still; But the air and my heart and the earth are a-thrill, And look where the wild duck sails round the bend of the river, And look where a passionate shiver Expectant is bending the blades Of the marsh-grass in serial shimmers and shades...
Seite 86 - O to abide in the desert with thee! Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying?
Seite 92 - To one who has been long in city pent, "Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven,— to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment? Returning home at evening...
Seite 193 - I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God: Oh, like to the greatness of God is the greatness within The range of the marshes, the liberal marshes of Glynn.
Seite 194 - With your lapfulls of stars and dreams); — And a sailor unseen is hoisting a-peak, For list, down the inshore curve of the creek How merrily flutters the sail, — And lo, in the east! Will the East unveil? The East is unveiled, the East hath confessed A flush: 'tis dead; 'tis alive: 'tis dead, ere the West Was aware of it: nay, 'tis abiding, 'tis un withdrawn: Have a care, sweet Heaven! 'Tis Dawn.
Seite 176 - Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease ! The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas.
Seite 184 - ... yards of me ; and there they would swim about, with their heads above water, like so many black dogs, evidently delighted with the sounds. For half an hour, or, indeed, for any length of time I chose, I could fix them to the spot ; and when I moved along the water edge, they would follow me with eagerness, like the Dolphins who, it is said, attended Arion, as if anxious to prolong the enjoyment.
Seite 182 - Navill upward, her backe and breasts were like a womans (as they say that saw her) her body as big as one of us; her skin very white; and long haire hanging downe behind, of colour blacke: in her going downe they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a Porposse, and speckled like a Macrell.