By many signs wild creatures inform the gamekeeper of the approach
of hard weather. The wood-pigeons give him useful warning. In most
parts of the country flocks of pigeons take toll of the greens and
root-crops--a thousand pigeons may be seen rising from a single field
of roots. In mild weather they may return once or twice during a day.
When they are seen constantly streaming to the root-fields, those
disturbed returning again and again, it is a certain sign that hard
weather is near.
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