Birds of the Loch and Mountain (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Birds of the Loch and MountainI have always had a great love for the solitude and calm of the lone Scottish mountains, where a peace and happiness are to be found unknown to the dwellers in the plains. Here one seems to be apart from the sorrows and anxieties of the world, and the days I have spent among the Ptarmigan and Golden Plover at a height of considerably more than feet above sea level I shall always remember as the happiest of my experience. What can be more lovely than a mid-winter sunset from a dark, lofty mountain, with many a snow wreath lingering on its slopes? As the sun sinks, the wide expanse of hill and valley is lit up in the soft glow, and the snow fields on the sister hills are changed from spot less white to a glorious rosy tinge, while the snow white Ptarmigan, Wheeling across in the setting sun, have their plumage transformed to pink as they catch its rays.To obtain the photograph of the Ptarmigan on her nest, I was on the hills from midnight till one o'clock the next afternoon.I know the mountains at every season of the year, but think that they are at their finest during the month of June, when all Nature at this height looks at her best, and the air is laden with the scent of the mountain plants.In the following pages it has been my endeavour to give an account of the lives and habits of the best known of the mountain nesting birds.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.