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Identifier: birdstheirnestse00vosg (find matches)
Title: Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Vos, George Herklots
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : G. Routledge New York : E.P. Dutton.
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e settled down, and took things quietly.But not for one second did that black eyeshut. And my lady would persist in keepingup the swaying movement with her head. Igave them four exposures of four secondseach before I got one in which she was quitestill. Well, this was good luck. To startso fortunately with the largest of thefeathered tribe we sought, and under suchpropitious circumstances too ! How canwe get her off her nest, to photograph theeggs ? I asked. But this was done in duecourse, as shall be narrated further on. Wefelt quite satisfied with our work, but stillwe had another find, a thrushs nest, builtin a bush, a few feet from the ground, withfour greenish-blue black-spotted eggs. Themother bird betrayed her whereabouts,though cunningly enough, by shpping outinto the undergrowth, and then running afew yards, not breaking cover till she reachedthe shore, when out she flew low down uponthe water to the mainland bank. But wehad noticed her. AMONGST THE ISLAND BIRDS. EARLY MAY 19
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IX : This famous songster of our gardens, woodsAND glades. Common song-thrush, male, inSUMMER plumage (J-size). The thrush builds a nest much Hke thatof the blackbird, and the habits of the two 20 OUR FIRST DAYS OUTING: birds are similar. But why the thrushshould line her nest with clay I do not under-stand. When the eggs are nearly hatchedthe female will sit quite tight, and allowyou to inspect herself and nest, though onlya few feet off. She knows full well thatif the eggs get chilled just at this timethe young ones, nearly born, will surelydie. This famous songster of our gardens, woods,and glades (Plate IX.) dehghts us mostly inthe springtime, when the nest is buildingand the eggs are laid. Then, when the firststreak of dawn is seen, he will often an-noyingly awake you with his song. Butyou will forgive him when you are quiteawake ! And late into the evening, when thesun has sunk quite out of sight, he is thereagain singing his sweetest, perched upon hisfavourite twig, generally o

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