A Glimpse of the Birds of Berkeley, 



in the University Grounds and in the 

 canons. 



With the nuthatches come, from their 

 northern breeding places, the pileolated 

 warblers, and other shy wood creatures 

 which haunt the quiet, out-of-the-way- 

 nooks, and shrink from the presence of 

 man. The pileolated warbler is one of 

 the loveliest, daintiest creatures that 

 visit us. As I walk in my favorite 

 nook in the hills, Woolsey's Canon, to 

 the north of the University Grounds, 

 I see a lithe, active, alert little bird, 

 gleaning for insects among the leaves, 

 now high up among the branches, and 

 again darting hither and thither down- 

 ward to where the fine thread of water 

 has formed a pool, there to bathe an 

 instant and then, with a lightsome toss 

 of spray flirted from its wings, to 

 resume its quest among the bay leaves. 

 It is a waif of gold with a crown of jet, 

 and its song, a sweet, sudden burst of 

 woodland music, is quite in keeping 

 with the singer. 



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