Eyes and no eyes (1903) (14742965706)

Identifier: eyesnoeyes00buck (find matches)
Title: Eyes and no eyes
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Buckley, Arabella B Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York University
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Publisher: London, New York : Cassell and Company, Ltd
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
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f birds which catch insects on the wing—Swallow. Thelong, slender beaks of birds which feel underground for food—Woodcock. LESSON IX. MIGRATING IN AUTUMN. When the summer is over, there is not so muchfood for the birds, and some begin to go away.Those which live on flying insects go first. Thecuckoo is generally gone by the end of July. Theswifts start off in August, and about the middleof September the swallows begin to find veryfew flies, gnats, or moths, and get ready for theirlong journey. If you keep a sharp look-out you may see theSwallows and Martins collecting, about the 15th ofSeptember, on some church tower, or perhaps onthe roof of a barn, and flying off together to roostin the trees. This they never do in the summerThen they sleep on the rafters of some barn, orunder the eaves of a roof, always keeping nearbuildings. But before they fly away for the winterthey gather together in the trees, or on the willowsin the osier beds. Then ggjjie morning yery early they all dis-
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MARTIN; AND SWALLOW FEEDING HER YOUNG.(S« pcge 21.) MIGRATING TN AUTUMN. 47 appear. They have started to fly steadily in largeflocks, for hundreds of miles, to Africa, where theyxill have Avarni weather, and insects to eat, all the«^inter. You will not see them again till next April.