Your letter came too late for me to procure a ring-ouzel for Mr. Tunstal during their autumnal visit; but I will endeavour to get him one when they call on us again in April.
The Grand Junction Canal, reaching the valley of the Ouse by way of the Ouzel valley from the south, has branches to Aylesbury and to Buckingham.
Looks like a bit of the rock itself, with moss all about it," and Gloria understood that it was her water-ouzel he was talking about.
Here I find the little water ouzel as much at home as any linnet in a leafy grove, seeming to take the greater delight the more boisterous the stream.
The little ouzel is flitting from rock to rock along the rapid swirling Canon Creek, diving for breakfast in icy pools, and merrily singing as if the huge rugged avalanche-swept gorge was the most delightful of all its mountain homes.
You see, its purpose is to show people what a water-ouzel is like and it's hard to make the creature out.
Mackenzie killed one with a ring round its neck, such as the ring-ouzel has.
Indeed blackbirds are now in crowds there, and have so entirely superseded the ring-ouzel that one of these is quite a rarity.
Happily the ouzel and the old familiar robin are here to sing us welcome, and azure daisies beam with trustfulness and sympathy, enabling us to feel something of Nature's love even here, beneath the gaze of her coldest rocks.
But fortunately the Ouzel has no enemy so eager to eat his little body as to follow him into the mountain solitudes.
The Ouzel never sings in chorus with other birds, nor with his kind, but only with the streams.
The Yosemite birds are easily found during the winter because all of them excepting the Ouzel are restricted to the sunny north side of the valley, the south side being constantly eclipsed by the great frosty shadow of the wall.
The voices of most song-birds, however joyous, suffer a long winter eclipse; but the Ouzel sings on through all the seasons and every kind of storm.
What may be regarded as the separate songs of the Ouzel are exceedingly difficult of description, because they are so variable and at the same time so confluent.
The Ouzel is usually found singly; rarely in pairs, excepting during the breeding season, and very rarely in threes or fours.
The Ouzel alone of all birds dares to enter a white torrent.
I have never yet met ducks in any of the lakes of this kind, but the ouzel is never wanting where the feeding-streams are perennial.
In form and movements the Ring Ouzel is a more elegantly shaped bird than the Blackbird.
Ring Ouzel is hardly an appropriate name for this bird; for in reality it does not wear a ring round its neck, but a white gorget on its breast, the contrast between which and its black plumage is very striking.
Some persons seem to think that it is impossible for the Water Ouzel to walk at the bottom of the water, owing to its body being of less specific gravity.
The Water Ouzel sings very frequently, and as much in winter as at any time.
Its nest is very similar to that of the ordinary Ring Ouzel or Blackbird, and is located in the middle of a dense bush.
The Dipper, or Water Ouzel as it is called in some districts, builds her nest in such splendid harmony with its surroundings that it is very difficult to find.
The grey-winged ouzel (Merula boulboul) is perhaps the finest songster in the Himalayas.
The cock ouzel remained for fully five minutes with one eye on me, and then flew off.
Yet daily with its flattering voice, Talking amid its fluttering wings, Store of ouzel dainties choice With busy bill the poor bird brings.
Store of ouzel dainties choice To those white swinging bars it brings; And with a low consoling voice It talks between its fluttering wings.
They must have been with you, then, when I boarded the Ouzel Galley as you went out of Port Royal," Gerald took the opportunity of observing, after Norman Foley had left them.
The French crew had in the mean time brought a fresh topmast on board the Ouzel Galley, to supply the place of the one shot away, and had been busily employed in getting it up.
Not a pirate now remained alive on the deck of the Ouzel Galley.
The rest of the usual canvas was set, and under all sail the Ouzel Galley made good way towards her destination.
The crew of theOuzel Galley watched eagerly for the effect of the shot.
It was pretty evident that the stranger was suspicious of the character of the Ouzel Galley, and was coming in chase of her.
Every stitch of canvas the Ouzel Galley could carry was set on her, the sails being wetted that they might the better hold the wind.
At this moment, a voice was heard from among the pirates cheering them on, and a fresh party leaping down on the deck of the Ouzel Galley bore all before them.
The water ouzel finds congenial habitat in the canyons of the Tahoe region, and the careful observer may see scores of them as he walks along the streams and by the cascades and waterfalls during a summer's season.
At one place they are so numerous as to have led to the naming of a beautiful waterfall, Ouzel Falls, after them.
In a gorge it hears the ouzel from the rocks pour forth his melody--joyous notes of happy, liquid song.
In June, too, the ever-cheerful water-ouzel carols most intensely by his chosen home along the alpine streams.
Later, as I sat on a sodden log, reveling in the elemental moods and sounds, a water-ouzel began to sing, but I heard little of his serene optimistic solo above the roar of the wind and stream.
She was about to utter a sharp rebuke, but Giles held out his hand imploringly, and she paused a moment to hear the sweet full note of the "ouzel cock, with orange tawny bill" closely imitated on a tiny bone whistle.
He is slate-color all over, a little paler on the breast, and his mate is exactly like him, but the young ouzel has all the under feathers tipped with white, and usually a white throat.
Besides showing that the water ouzel likes water, this little story shows another thing,--that birds are not naturally afraid of us.
Again the bird flew into it, and as long as he would throw out water, the ouzel would dash in for his sprinkle.
He says the ouzelsings all winter, and never minds the weather; also that he never goes far from the stream.
Down that sheer rock, perhaps into the water at its foot, had been the first flight of the ouzel baby.
And then I saw, not far off on the grass, a bird not unlike the familiar blackbird, or black ouzelof the garden, as some country folks still call him, save that he had a white throat.
The black ouzel is just a conny among feathered folk, or what blackberries be 'mongst the fruit.
It was the first that I ever saw in England, although I believe the ring-ouzel is not uncommon on the Church Stretton hills; but on cultivated land, save in a few parts of Scotland, he is always a rare visitor.
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