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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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h is a single crawk. He did not seem to say are youthere ? but rather I am here/ letting hisnumerous wives scattered about feeding orlazing know that he was available for theirprotection did they need him. Or was it acaution to them not to wander too far away ?Perhaps it was a defiant crow of challenge,like that of the domestic cock. Another oldbird sat fearlessly in the grass only a fewfeet from a country cat, which was apparentlywatching for a sparrow or a vole. The animaland the bird did not seem to heed each other ;they probably knew one another and leftwell alone. Teds eye, keen from practice, detected anest on the roadside in a low wild rose bush,two feet from the ground, in a most favourableposition for a photograph. It contained threeeggs of a buff or cream colour spotted all overwith black or brownish specks, showing it tobe the nest of a white-throat, and we sawthe hen close by. Four or five eggs aregenerally laid. The nest was built, like EARLY JUNE—OUR LAST EXCURSION iS7
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Plate XLVII : A nest on the roadside in a low rose-bush. Nest of white-throat (J size). many others, of fine dried grass, and linedwith hair, and was of the usual size thatthese ^mall birds build, viz. about two and 158 AMONGST THE WOODLAND BIRDS— a half inches across inside and two inchesdeep. We had long looked for this nest,especially amongst nettles, of which white-throats often make use, and we were glad todiscover one at last. The bird is sometimescalled the Nettle Creeper. We hoped tohear the <:ock sing, but were disappointed. Heutters a series of notes, either when perchedor in the air, and seems very excited thewhile, puffing out his little throat and erectingthe feathers of his head and wriggling about.(I have noticed the sedge-warbler erect hiscrown feathers in the same way whilst sing-ing.) He will at times suddenly dart intothe air in a jerky manner, and as suddenlydrop down again upon a branch. He is of thewarbler family, but the song can scarcely becalled a warble.

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