Birds at their best.--Birds and man.--Daws in the west country.--Early spring in Savernake forest.--A wood wren at Wells.--The secret of the willow wren.--Secret of the charm of flowers.--Ravens in Somerset.--Owls in a village.--The strange and beautiful sheldrake.--Geese; an appreciation and a memory.--The Dartford warbler.--Vertvert; or, Parrot gossip.--Something pretty in a glass case.--Selborne.