 I have seen the old birds feeding their young on the 2Oth of September, 1828, at Warleigh; and have been assured, by a good observer, that martins have frequently been seen flying during mild weather even in the Christmas week, at Plympton. These birds...  Transactions of the Plymouth Institution - Page 307by Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society - 1830 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1830 - 390 pages
...frequently been seen flying during mild weather even in the Christmas week, at Plymton. These bird's build in the hollows of the rocks under Wembury cliffs,...question but that some of them are often found here in win. ter in a torpid state, from which Mr. White supposes they sometimes revive, from their being seen... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1838 - 410 pages
...martens have frequently been seen flying during mild weather even in the Christmas week, at Plympton. These birds build in the hollows of the rocks under...as well as about the houses in this neighbourhood." Our winters are seldom severe ; and when we have snow it does not lie long upon the ground. But Dartmoor,... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1879 - 480 pages
...martins have frequently been seen flying during mild weather even in the Christmas week, at Plympton. These birds build in the hollows of the rocks under...as well as about the houses in this neighbourhood." 8 A DEEP SNOW. [LET. Our winters are seldom severe ; and when we have snow it does not lie long upon... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1879 - 480 pages
...martins have frequently been seen flying during mild weather even in the Christmas week, at Plympton. These birds build in the hollows of the rocks under...as well as about the houses in this neighbourhood." Our winters are seldom severe ; and when we have snow it does not lie long upon the ground. But Dartmoor,... | |
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