. Observation des oiseaux . se reenivant, et en donnéechaque maintenant et encore le petit balayage de l'oiseau de la billfirst d'un côté et puis un autre d'un brindille ou d'un gouge, que dans n'importe quelle gouttière sérieuse. Pour cela, ils volent sur l'aulne, où, à la fois, ils se nourrissent de busily.mais je remarque que de temps en temps, quelques uns d'entre eux revolent dans l'aubépine, où ils s'assoient, alittle, se prêtant comme avant, avant de retourner.en fait, ils utilisent l'aubépine comme leur chambre fatigante, Alors que l'autre est la grande salle de banquet.une ou deux fois—je pense que c'était deux—j'ai vu un dartat un autre et le conduire de son

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. Bird watching . reening themselves, and in givingevery now and again the little birdy wipe of the billfirst on one side and then another of a twig or bough, than in any serious guttling. For this they fly tothe alder, where, at once, they are feeding busily.But I notice that every now and again some few ofthem fly back into the hawthorn, where they sit, alittle, preening themselves as before, before returning.In fact, they use the hawthorn-tree as their tiring-room, whilst the alder is the great banqueting-hall.Once or twice—I think it was twice—I saw one dartat another and drive it from its particular catkin.As they had a whole large tree to themselves, this, I think, was pretty good. But I have never seen the blue-tit behave soprettily and airily with its catkins, as I have thelittle willow-warbler in April. These little birds arethen constantly pursuing each other about through^- 254 BIRD WATCHING the trees, and especially the birch-trees, for whichthey seem to have a decided preference, perhaps. Fairy Artillery because they make a fairy setting for their fairyselves. They affect its catkins, and one of the most BIRDS IN THE GREENWOODS 255 pleasing of things is to see them shoot through theyet thin veil of green, give a flying peck at one, andbecome immediately enveloped in a little yellowcloud of the pollen. It looks, indeed, as if the birdhad shaken it from its own feathers, for its intimateactions are too quick and small to be followed, andthe pollen is all around it. But as the eye marksthe tiny explosion with delight, reason, quicklyfollowing, as delightedly tells you the why of it, and a plucked catkin illustrates. This is all in the early fresh morning, when theearth is like a dew-bath and all the influences solovely that one wonders how sin and sorrow canhave entered into such a world. It seems as thoughnature must be at her fairest for so fairy a thing tobe done. I, at least, have not seen it take placelater, and I cannot help hoping that no one elsew

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