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100 1 _aThijsse, Jac. P.
_q(Jacobus Pieter),
_d1865-1945
245 1 0 _aWinter
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-12
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg
520 _a"Winter" by Jac. P. Thijsse is an illustrated natural history guide written in the early 20th century. The volume closes a seasonal cycle and explores how winter reshapes the Dutch landscape, from dunes and shores to gardens, parks, and forests. It blends clear identification notes with practical advice on observing birds, plants, fungi, and tracks, and even on welcoming wildlife to the garden. This is for curious walkers, gardeners, and young naturalists who enjoy learning by looking. The opening of the book sets the scene with a foreword that frames this volume as the capstone of a seasonal series, then slips into a lively tour of early winter. It describes the first great leaf-fall after autumn storms, children’s play, and the patient wait for true frost, before guiding the reader to late mushrooms and earthstars, and to beachcombing after gales that wash up kittiwakes, auks, puffins, and gannets. Indoors and at garden walls, it highlights winter flowers—chrysanthemums, primulas, cyclamens, a dry-blooming arum, forced bulbs—and outdoor bloomers like winter jasmine and hellebores, plus holly and berry shrubs for birds. It teaches how to tell box from true conifers, and how to distinguish Thujopsis, cypress, thuja, cryptomeria, and various pines and spruces, then shifts onto the ice: skating, peering through clear ice at life below, providing water and food for garden birds, and watching hawks hunt. Tracks in snow lead to a portrait of winter mammals—rabbits, hares, deer, foxes, otter, and mustelids—balancing their harms and benefits. With a January thaw, the focus turns to lichens and true mosses, the beauty of winter seedheads, gall wasps at alder buds, and the alder’s catkins and “cones,” before a bustling chorus of winter flocks—siskins, long-tailed tits, great and blue tits, marsh/coal/crested tits, treecreepers, wrens, and nuthatches—plus occasional rarities like waxwings and nutcrackers. The excerpt closes as crossbills set to work prising open conifer cones. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cZaandam: Bakkerij "De Ruijter" der firma Verkade & comp., 1909
653 _aNatural history -- Netherlands
653 _aAdvertising cards -- Netherlands
653 _aKoninklijke Verkade (Firm) -- Collectibles
700 1 _aOort, Jan van,
_d1867-1938
700 1 _aVoerman, Jan,
_d1890-1976
700 1 _aWenckebach, L. W. R.
_q(Ludwig Willem Reymert),
_d1860-1937
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76866
999 _c117591
_d117591