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Identifier: birdnotesns08fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rd. They were slightly smaller than those in the nest of thelatter bird in one of my other aviaries, and were of a darkershade of green; still I believe that in my Ijoyhood days T tookblackbirds eggs that could not have been distinguished fromthem. The cock fieldfare took no part in the nest building opera-tions, bttt guarded the nest in the absence of the hen. He isnaturally a very wild bird, but he now became comparativelytame. Unfortunately an indiscreet action on my part caused thehen to desert the nest. Thinking that, as it was very much ex-posed, it would be well to provide some artificial shelter, I hadniy man place a sheet of galvanized iron on the netting, immedi-atey over the nest, but this well intenti-Mied action was resented,and the hen did not go near it again. ( lowever, within ten daysshe was again nesting, this time in a box suspended from theroof of the aviary. She now became qtiite fierce. Evidentlyher first failure had soured her temj^er. On one occasion when b p 5
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Nesting of the Fieldfare, Etc. 219 showintj the nest to my father-in-law, who is a member of the\. T. C she flew straight at liis face. It was most amiising tosee him evade the attack, and I con^ratiilated him on the efficientway in which he carried ont the instructions of his officers asto taking cover when in face of the enemy. At another timewhen 1 was passini^ near the nest, she pitched on my bare headand went for me tooth and nail. I thou.^ht from these demons-trations that she would be sure to prove a good mother. Butalas! the contrary was the case, for. after a.gain laying foureggs, she declined to sit at all. In justce to the bird, I must saythat on the day she laid her last egg, we had no less than 35/jinches of rain in the twenty four hours, and this I think gave hera chill, as she looked very ill for several days after. A week ortwo later both birds went into moult. The Rkdwixg.—Their closely allied congener the Red-wing is a much shyer bird, and it spends most of its tim

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