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Updated: May 17, 2025
But though no game could stay an hour in such places, lesser birds love them, white-throats build there, gold-crests come down from the dark pines opposite they seem fond of pines yellow-hammers sit and sing on them, and they are visited all day long by one or other.
It was an enchanted world of green shadows and silent movement; countless yellow caterpillars hung there, dangling to and fro, each on its slender thread; chaffinches and yellow-hammers swung themselves impetuously from bough to bough, and at every swoop snapped up a caterpillar; but these never became any fewer.
What but these same beggarly croakers, that be only fit to be turned into yellow-hammers up to Dartymoor, and sit on a tor all day, and cry 'Very little bit of bread, and no chee-e-ese! Marry, sneak-up! say I again." "And what," said Drake, "would have kept me, if I'd let 'em, from ever sailing round the world, but these same croakers?
John Burroughs said he thought we had, and one day when he was staying at our place he came across a bird that he had never seen before. About ten years ago we imported a great number of birds from abroad yellow-hammers, chaffinches, green finches, red pales, twites, bullfinches, jays, linnets, larks some five hundred of them. They stayed around a while, but where they are now I do not know.
It was curious to hear this hunchback talk of the habits of the birds and of the influence of the winds. He knew how the gold-finches, yellow-hammers, and linnets make their nests, and the preference some of them have for coltsfoot cotton, and others for wool or for cow's hair. He told Caesar a lot of things, many of which could have existed only in his imagination, but which were entertaining.
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