. Nature's carol singers. Birds. THE WHITETHROAT. either side of the tail told me unmis- takably that it was a Whitethroat. Pre- sently the little songster shot up into the air to a height of some twenty or thirty feet, and with outspread tail and head and wings, performing all kinds of strange antics, bubbled out its hurried notes as it descended to the topmost spraj' of the bush which it had just left. This performance was frequently repeated until his mate left the hedgerow behind me and joined him, when his excitement appeared to abate to some extent. The call notes of this species are ver
. Nature's carol singers. Birds. THE WHITETHROAT. either side of the tail told me unmis- takably that it was a Whitethroat. Pre- sently the little songster shot up into the air to a height of some twenty or thirty feet, and with outspread tail and head and wings, performing all kinds of strange antics, bubbled out its hurried notes as it descended to the topmost spraj' of the bush which it had just left. This performance was frequently repeated until his mate left the hedgerow behind me and joined him, when his excitement appeared to abate to some extent. The call notes of this species are very varied, and have been written down by different observers in a variety of ways. The most general are those sounding like clia, cha and purr, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928; Kearton, Cherry, 1871-1940, illus. London, New York [etc. ] Cassell and Co. , Ltd.
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