 | Henry Seebohm - 1880 - 362 pages
...and plenty of birds. The next day the west winds which had prevailed for a week slackened a little. In the afternoon it was a calm, with a rising barometer...an uninterrupted stream ; a few swerved from their s course, fluttered for a moment as if dazzled by the and ihen gradually vanished with the rest in... | |
 | Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club - 1884 - 422 pages
...visit to the lighthouse on the island of Heligoland, during a period of autumnal migration. " The whole zone of light within range of the mirrors was alive...gradually vanished with the rest in the western gloom. The scene from the balcony of the lighthouse was equally interesting; in every direction birds were... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1890 - 582 pages
...lighthouse. As I crossed the potato-fields birds continually got up at my feet, and when- 1 reached the lighthouse an intensely interesting sight presented...emerging in an uninterrupted stream ; a few swerved swerved from their course, fluttered for a moment as if dazzled by the light, and then gradually vanished... | |
 | Charles John Cornish - 1897 - 378 pages
...the lighthouse, nets in hand, to capture the birds which strayed from the main body : — ' The whole zone of light within range of the mirrors was alive...swerved from their course, fluttered for a moment as if dazed by the light, and then vanished with the rest in the western gloom. Occasionally one wheeled... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1898 - 620 pages
...visible in the darkness of night but tho lantern of the light-house vignetted on a drifting sea of wings. From the darkness in the East clouds of birds were...continually emerging in an uninterrupted stream, a fow swerving from tbeir course, fluttering for a moment as if dazed by the light, and then vanishing... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 pages
...with birds coming and going. Nothing else was visible in the darkness of the night, but the lanthorn of the lighthouse vignetted in a drifting sea of birds....gradually vanished with the rest in the western gloom. ... I should be afraid to hazard a guess as to the hundreds of thousands that must have passed in a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1898 - 618 pages
...visible in the darkness of night but the lantern of the light-house vignetted on adrifting sea of wings. From the darkness in the East clouds of birds were...continually emerging in an uninterrupted stream, a few swerving from their course, fluttering for a moment as if dnzed by the light, and then vanishing in... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1901 - 726 pages
...Heligoland must remain fresh and interesting for all time. " From the darkness in the east," he writes, "clouds of birds were continually emerging in an uninterrupted...gradually vanished with the rest in the western gloom. . . I should be afraid to hazard a guess as to the hundreds of thousands that must have passed in a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1898 - 630 pages
...in the darkness of night but the lantern of the light-house vignetted on a. drifting sea of wings. From the darkness in the East clouds of birds were...continually emerging in an uninterrupted stream, a few swerving from their course, fluttering for a moment as if dnzed by the light, and then vanishing in... | |
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Arrived at the lighthouse, an intensely interesting sight presented itself. The whole of the zone of light within range of the mirrors was alive with birds coming and going. Nothing else was visible in the darkness of the night but the lantern of the... 