Image from page 66 of “Alabama bird day book” (1915)
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Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1915alab
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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ee the glint of summer sun,And twilight, when the day is done;The sober peace of musing cowsWho on the meadow grasses browse;The radiant glory of the mornThat sweeps across the nodding corn.A thousand happy fancies startWhen thou are nestling near my heart. 0 pumpkin pie! I hear the breezeThat whispered in the maple trees; 1 see the swaying fields of wheat,And hear the birdsongs, clear and sweet;And, low across the land at night, I catch the ballad of delight—The chant the cricket sings in glee;And summer comes again to me.O pumpkin pie! Thus dost thou castThy joyous glamour oer the past. O pumpkin pie! Within thy breastThese gladsome summer fancies rest;The golden sunshine and the dewHave paid their tribute through and through.The song the lark trilled in the airWithin thy form is echoed there; For all these things of joy to meWere caught and firmly held by thee. 0 pumpkin pie! For all thou didst 1 welcome thee unto my midst! —Copyright by Wilbur D. Nesbit. i* V 0 r:: :T~. >v_
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I AMERICAN BALD EAGLE. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFOH0, CHICAGO Alabama, ipi5. 51 AMERICAN BALD EAGLE T HE Eagle does not acquire its white head and tail under itsfourth year. The head is fully feathered, and the nameBald refers solely to its white appearance. Up to threeyears of age it is of the same general color as the goldenEagle, and to distinguish the two species it is necessary to look atthe lowest joint of the leg. If it is naked, the bird is a Bald Eagle,but if it is covered with feathers quite down to the toes, it is agolden agle. As a rule—to which there are numerous exceptions—the BaldEagle is found along rivers, and the shores of lakes and ponds con-taining fish. Fish are its favorite food, and lambs are purely sup-plementary. As a regular thing, it catches fish out of the water,with neatness and despatch; but when it sees an osprey fly by with alarge fish in its talons, the Eagle does not hesitate to levy tribute onthe subject bird. Taken thus at a great disadvantag
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