BIRD NOTES AFIELD 



Such is the bay shore with its many forms of bird life. In 

 the bushes the domestic little fellows who make their homes 

 here, and upon the marshes the restless throngs that come and 

 go with the tides, the hungry hordes from the Arctic shores 

 eagerly scanning the oozy shallows for food, and off in the 

 deep water the diving and swimming birds — what an assem- 

 blage it is and what fancies it suggests to the busy mind! 

 Migration, that mysterious impulse of bird nature, which sets 

 all wings in motion in spring and autumn for the long zmd 

 perilous flight, a reminiscence of the dread power of the age 

 of ice and the struggle for existence — that bitter, unceasing 

 conflict by which all that lives maintains its place upon the 

 globe — these and many other problems are suggested by our 

 day upon the bay shore, and we wend our way toward home 

 pondering upon the richness and mystery of those things which 

 lie about us on every side. 



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