Sand Dunes and Salt MarshesD. Estes, 1913 - 301 Seiten |
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... TRACKS AND TRACKING 38 III . VEGETATION IN THE DUNES 70 IV . LAND BIRDS OF THE DUNES . 86 V. SWALLOW ROOSTS AND SWALLOW MIGRA- TION 111 VI . WATER BIRDS SEEN FROM THE DUNES 123 VII . THE HARBOR SEAL . 160 • VIII . SALT MARSHES . 188 ...
... TRACKS AND TRACKING 38 III . VEGETATION IN THE DUNES 70 IV . LAND BIRDS OF THE DUNES . 86 V. SWALLOW ROOSTS AND SWALLOW MIGRA- TION 111 VI . WATER BIRDS SEEN FROM THE DUNES 123 VII . THE HARBOR SEAL . 160 • VIII . SALT MARSHES . 188 ...
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... TRACKS JACK RABBIT TRACKS , IPSWICH , 1903 PAGE 36 38 38 40 40 TRACKS OF FOX AND CROWS 46 MUSKRAT TRACKS TRACKS OF TOADS TRACK OF SNAKE 46 50 50 . TRACK OF MEADOW - MOUSE AND OF A WOOLLY BEAR CATERPILLAR TRACKS OF WHITE - FOOTED MOUSE SKUNK ...
... TRACKS JACK RABBIT TRACKS , IPSWICH , 1903 PAGE 36 38 38 40 40 TRACKS OF FOX AND CROWS 46 MUSKRAT TRACKS TRACKS OF TOADS TRACK OF SNAKE 46 50 50 . TRACK OF MEADOW - MOUSE AND OF A WOOLLY BEAR CATERPILLAR TRACKS OF WHITE - FOOTED MOUSE SKUNK ...
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... TRACKS OF HERRING GULL MADE ON ALIGHTING ON THE BEACH 126 · HERRING GULLS IN THE IPSWICH DUNES 128 THE WRECK OF THE SAND SCHOONER 136 THE WRECK A YEAR LATER 136 · • COURTSHIP POSES OF WHISTLER 146 " " COURTSHIP POSE OF SHELLDRAKE ...
... TRACKS OF HERRING GULL MADE ON ALIGHTING ON THE BEACH 126 · HERRING GULLS IN THE IPSWICH DUNES 128 THE WRECK OF THE SAND SCHOONER 136 THE WRECK A YEAR LATER 136 · • COURTSHIP POSES OF WHISTLER 146 " " COURTSHIP POSE OF SHELLDRAKE ...
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... TRACKS 252 MOUNDS MADE BY BEACH FLEAS 256 CIRCLES MADE BY THE GRASS BLOWN BY THE WIND 256 • WHELK , SEA SNAIL , ETC. NORTHERN QUAHOG , SEA MUSSEL , ETC. 270 • 270 • Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes CHAPTER I SAND DUNES " LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
... TRACKS 252 MOUNDS MADE BY BEACH FLEAS 256 CIRCLES MADE BY THE GRASS BLOWN BY THE WIND 256 • WHELK , SEA SNAIL , ETC. NORTHERN QUAHOG , SEA MUSSEL , ETC. 270 • 270 • Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes CHAPTER I SAND DUNES " LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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... tracks of living creatures . A day spent in the dunes " On the firm packed sand , Free By a world of marsh that borders a world of sea , " with the roar of the waves and the cries of the gulls in one's ears , the breath of the marsh and ...
... tracks of living creatures . A day spent in the dunes " On the firm packed sand , Free By a world of marsh that borders a world of sea , " with the roar of the waves and the cries of the gulls in one's ears , the breath of the marsh and ...
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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.