The Badminton Magazine 1899-06: Vol 8 Iss 47 (1899)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 42
nxiously summoned them to safety amidst the reeds. A heron croaked as he flew overhead. A couple of terns gracefully hung over the water, descending suddenly upon the surface when some little fish came within reach of their bills. Over the meadow four black-headed gulls sporting together in the… … a sandpiper busily engaged in its search for insects ran briskly at the water’s edge. Such was my introduction to the birds of an Irish lough. The sandpiper is, I afterwards found, the most conspicuous bird on the shores of an Irish lough in summer-time. He is also perhaps the most interesting.…
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