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Identifier: birdsbeastsfishe00emer (find matches)
Title: Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 Cotton, T. A
Subjects: Birds -- England Norfolk Fishes -- England Norfolk Mammals -- England Norfolk
Publisher: London : D. Nutt
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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always seem on the move—hereone day, there another—for ever travelling and eating anddrinking; a mere phantasmagoria of bright and restlessatoms, for ever flickering athwart the skies. Such is the 152 BIRDS, BEASTS, AND FISHES impression of this strange fly-eating family, for whose goodvisits one cannot be thankful enough, and whose lives a veryheavy penalty should protect, for they are the most usefulof birds. I have known them stay in Anglesea till the middle ofOctober.
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CHAPTER LI II THE NIGHT-JAR The night-hawk, or big razor-grinder, as he is more rarelycalled in the Broadlands, is by no means common, forcars abutting on the water are rare, and the night-hawkslove best the solitude that dwells in a car by day, for hedoes not care to be disturbed as he roosts with his speckledbody parallel with the tree branch, or rests upon the ground—that is, when he is roosting—for sometimes of a dull day hewill hawk by day. But the dusk is his chosen time; the hour when the bigbats hawk over the water sees him fly beneath the moonfrom a sleeping covert, just as the partridge is calling heryoung on the uplands near by, the heron flighting to thedikes, and the last snipe drumming round and round overthe moist water-grasses. Any fine day in May you may first hear his razor-grinder going, as the Broadsmen call that strange jarringvoice, as he hawks over the reed-beds for moths, combingtheir hair before he eats them with that long serrated clawof his, as the fenme

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  • bookauthor:Cotton__T__A
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  • bookpublisher:London___D__Nutt
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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