CHAPTER X 



HERON TEAL WAGTAILS SEDGE-WARBLER 

 REED-BUNTING LESSER WHITETHROAT 

 GREENFINCH CHAFFINCH GOLDCREST 

 BIRD-LAND IN WINTER 



GREAT numbers of Starlings and other small 

 birds fly to the bushes that fringe the Brook, there 

 to roost, the Starlings, as usual, having a deal to 

 say, and pecking and pushing each other in their 

 endeavours to get a favourable perch. All these 

 are silent at length, and the Blackbirds in the 

 ditches, under the hedge, have even given up their 

 loud calls ; the last song of the Redbreast is also 

 heard as he enters the wood ; the moon can be 

 dimly seen through the woodland trees, and a 

 quietness seems to hang over both water and 

 land. 



This is the time that the Heron loves to fre- 

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