Excerpt from Inland Birds: Northern Observations by a Sportsman From the angler's point of view, the heron's life is one long career of crime, yet I, although a hardened angler, can bear testimony to a redeeming trait in that fine bird which seems to have escaped the author's Observation. A few years ago the meadows beside the tower course of the Annan were infested by swarms of the short-cared vole. Day after day during the summer months, herons might be seen stalking about the pasture, gobbling voles as fast as they could catch them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.