Bird Watching

Towards evening, however  which is the best time to watch these birds they stand attending to their plumage, or walk with picked steps in a leisurely fashion, which, with their lean gaunt figure, sad and rusty coloured, and a certain sedateness, almost punctiliousness, of manner, fancifully suggests to one the figure of Don Quixote de la Mancha, with a touch or two, perhaps, thrown in of the old Baron of Bradwardine of Tullyveolan. 

 

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