Hampshire Days Author:William Henry Hudson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co. Subjects: Natural history History / Europe / Great Britain Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / General Nature / General Science / Life Sciences / Biology / General Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Br... more »itain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III A favourite New Forest haunt -- Summertide -- Young blackbird's call -- Abundance of blackbirds and thrushes and destruction of young -- Starlings breeding -- The good done by starlings -- Perfume of the honeysuckle -- Beauty of the hedge rose -- Cult of the rose -- Lesser whitethroat -- His low song -- Common and lesser whitethroat -- In the woods -- A sheet of bracken -- Effect of broken surfaces -- Roman mosaics at Silchester -- Why mosaics give pleasure -- Woodland birds -- Sound of insect life -- Abundance of flies -- Sufferings of cattle -- Dark Water -- Biting and teasing flies -- Feeding the fishes and fiddlers with flies. Looking away from Beaulieu towards Southampton Water there is seen on the border of the wide brown heath a long line of tall firs, a vast dark grove forming the horizon on that side. This is the edge of an immense wood, and beyond the pines which grow by the heath, it is almost exclusively oak with an undergrowth of holly. It is low-lying ground with many streams and a good deal of bog, and owing to the dense undergrowth and the luxuriance of vegetation generally this part of the forest has a ruder, wilder appearance than at any other spot. Here, too, albeit the nobler bird and animal forms are absent, as is indeed the case in all the New Forest district, animal life generally is in greatest profus...« less