Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 4, 2025
We shall see!" Sure enough, in a few days he saw a bird flying on high. "That," said he, "must be the Wis-kuma-gwasoo." He called him, and he came. "You spoke," he said, "of danger to our town. What is it?" "There is great danger. "What shall we do to be saved?" asked the man. "When will he come?" "In seven days," replied the Fish-Hawk. "Before that time you must take to your canoes and flee afar.
Where now are seen the gay retreats of luxury villas half buried in twilight bowers, whence the amorous flute oft breathes the sighings of some city swain there the fish-hawk built his solitary nest, on some dry tree that overlooked his watery domain.
Smooth-plumaged wax-wings are pruning their feathers in the tamarac-trees; and high up over the waters of the bay sails a long-winged fish-hawk, taking an extended and generally liberal view of sundry important matters connected with the fishery question.
If your camp is near the beaver house or beaver dam, or if your trip can be made by water, then, with no anxiety about your return, you can sit down and calmly await the coming of this most skilful of all building animals, and may see him add material to his house, or go on with his work of cutting down a tree, as a reward for your patience. =Fish-Hawk, Osprey=
MAINE: Wood-duck, upland plover, purple martin, house wren, pileated woodpecker, bald eagle, yellow-legs, great blue heron, Canada goose, redhead and canvasback duck. Puffin, Leach's petrel, eider duck, laughing gull, great blue heron, fish-hawk and bald eagle. MARYLAND: Curlew, pileated woodpecker, summer duck, snowy heron. No record of sandhill crane for the last 35 years.
If he's speared, half the time the spear slips and he struggles off badly wounded; and if the spear goes through him, he is flung out on the bank to bleed to death. Even if he escapes, he is sure to come to a pitiful end some day perish by starvation when he gets too old to catch his food or be torn to pieces by a seal, an otter, or a fish-hawk. Fly-fishing really offers him "
The Moodna Creek, that had almost ceased to flow in the drought, had become a tawny river, and rushed by them with a sullen roar, flanging over the tide was an old dead tree, on which was perched a fish-hawk. Even while they were looking at him, and Burt was wishing for his rifle, the bird swooped downward, plunged into the stream with a splash, and rose with a fish in his talons.
As the paddle dips, bubbles rise and burst, large and round. Behind, the dark woods curve in a lovely line; between wood and water, spread like a bed for the dead and dying trees, a swamp, bright with rushes and water-weed. On the crest of a snow-white birch sits a great fish-hawk, with bent head and closed wings. What is the hunter dreaming of?
But though the whole field of animal lore was one of absorbing interest to the Babe, from the day when he was so fortunate as to witness a mother fish-hawk teaching her rather unwilling and unventuresome young ones to fly, it was his fellow babes of the wild that he was most anxious to hear about.
The yellow-bird slants his wings, almost touches the deep water before him, and then escapes away under the bridge to the east with a glint of sunshine on his back; the fish-hawk comes down with a swoop, dips one wing, and, his prey having darted under a stone, is away again over the still hill, high soaring on even-poised pinions, keeping an eye perhaps upon the great eagle which is sweeping the sky in widening circles.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking