Forest Birds Their Haunts And Habits Short Studies From Nature
The book Forest Birds Their Haunts And Habits Short Studies From Nature was written by author Harry Forbes Witherby Here you can read free online of Forest Birds Their Haunts And Habits Short Studies From Nature book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Forest Birds Their Haunts And Habits Short Studies From Nature a good or bad book?
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But how can a little bird break through the hard shell of a hazel nut ? Let us watch it at its work. A nut is found may be it was in some secret nook in which FIG. 9. Foot of Green Woodpecker. From nature. Natural size. the bird had laid it up we see it fly off with its treasure to a rough-barked tree, and fix it securely in a crevice of the bark. Here it takes a firm stand, and begins to hammer at the nut might and main with its sharp bill (Fig. 12), until bit by bit a ragged hole is cut in th...e shell, but, just as we think it has achieved its object, a last blow dislodges the nut, and down it falls. Not far, however, for like a flash the The Nuthatch. 37 bird darts after it, and, catching the treasure in its beak before the ground is reached, again flies up and fixes it in the chink ; and this time the kernel is soon extracted, and devoured with much relish. From the habit of cracking nuts the Nuthatch has derived this, its most usual name, for " hatch " like " hatchet " has sprung from the French hacher " to chop.
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