Tanglewood Lane and Skippack Creek 



bill appear here and there and everywhere, 

 enlivening the gloom. 



But we have not arrived at the woods 

 without many a pause as we came. And 

 just because we have simply sauntered along 

 silently, making these frequent halts by 

 the way, and sitting down indeed at several 

 points for nearly a half hour at a stretch, 

 the birds have been most numerous, familiar 

 and unafraid throughout the entire distance 

 between. 



How hard it is to adhere to correct 

 methods of approach in anything! When 

 the amateur ornithologist is wise enough 

 to remember that the surest way to see 

 birds is merely to pick out a comfortable 

 place somewhere in the open and then 

 wait in patience until they actually come to 

 him — instead of thrashing about after them, 

 with fuss and fume, he generally has his 

 reward; for, after the lapse of only a com- 

 paratively short time, following this plan, 

 the spot that seemed entirely deserted will 

 as a rule show signs of life, if he but keep 

 quite still; and eyes, and wings, and voices 



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