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Title: Wild nature's ways
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds Insects Natural history
Publisher: London, Paris, New York Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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an eloquent tale of oversea wear andtear, but at the same time made me wonder alittle why such shabby old clothes should beworn at the height of the season of love-making.I attempted to thrust a hand carefully throughthe sticks and reeds and thus secure my visitor,but although she had hitherto been entirely un-conscious of my presence, she instantly detectedthe fact that there was something coming, andtook wing. Altogether I exposed five platesupon cuckoos that morning, and four of themturned out successful negatives. The wee, gay, restless imitative sedge warbler,or, as it used to be called in olden times, sedgebird, is abundant in East Anglia, and common inalmost every other part of the country where sedge-clad marshes or sluggish willow fringed streamsexist. I have met with it amongst a cluster oftwo or three dozen sallow bushes growing in alittle sequestered ghyll away up in the heart ofthe Westmoreland Fells, where it was, as usual,bubbling over with song and unalloyed happiness.
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SEDGE WARBLERS igS WILD NATURES WAYS. During: my last photographic trip to theBroads I several times stayed up all through theshort hours of summer darkness developing plates,and when the weather was fine the male repre-sentatives of two pairs of these birds breedingclose to the house-boat robbed the situation ofits loneliness by keeping up an unending rivalryof song. If atmospheric conditions had calleda truce in their war of notes, and I turned outduring the wee small hours when even the peewitswere at rest, and broke the deathly stillness ofnight by tossing a bucket of chemical-taintedwater into the dyke, the splash immediatelywoke the birds and fanned their \ocal ardourinto full blast again. Although the male sedge warbler makes anexcellent husband and father, he does not appearto possess either architectural ability or ambitionto acquire it, for when his httle helpmate is nest-building with incredible industry, he contentshimself by idly following her about or the takingof short,

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