A Watcher in The Woods

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Dallas Lore Sharp. A Watcher in The Woods

A Watcher in The Woods

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ILLUSTRATIONS

BIRDS' WINTER BEDS

SOME SNUG WINTER BEDS

"MUS'RATTIN'"

FEATHERED NEIGHBORS

FROM RIVER-OOZE TO TREE-TOP

RABBIT ROADS

SECOND CROPS

IN THE OCTOBER MOON

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Dallas Lore Sharp

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Probably the life of no other of our winter birds is so full of hardship as is that of the quail, Bob White.

In the early summer the quails are hatched in broods of from ten to twenty, and live as families until the pairing season the next spring. The chicks keep close to the neighborhood of the home nest, feeding and roosting together, under the guidance of the parent birds. But this happy union is soon broken by the advent of the gunning season. It is seldom that a bevy escapes this period whole and uninjured. Indeed, if one of the brood is left to welcome the spring it is little less than a miracle.

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