CHAPTER III.. A Favourite New Forest Haunt--Summertide--Young Blackbird's

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.