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WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



except for the 

 occasional 

 twitter of an 

 adventurous 

 tit hunting 

 the needle- 



YOUNG LONG 

 EARED OWL. 



clothed boughs high 

 overhead. 



I know many 

 bird and win d- 

 planted woods of ash, 

 rowan, hazel, white- 

 thorn, and holly high up amongst the hills in the 

 North of England that are tenanted by few 

 species, excepting carrion crows, tawny owls, 

 sparrow hawks, and occasional pairs of missel 

 thrushes, chaffinches, and wood wrens during the 

 breeding season, although they supply vast stores 

 of food for the winter consumption of redwings 

 and fieldfares. 



