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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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was a domed nest amongst tall grass on theground, roofed with dried grass, and had alarge opening on one side ; it was concealedfrom view but was now dilapidated. When wegot to it six youngsters scrambled out ; I hadhoped they would keep still for a photograph.There were no magpies here, and scarcelyany jays. Gamekeepers invariably destroythese birds which are incorrigible Qgg robbers,and the men think only of the game theyhave to protect and produce for their em-ployers when the first of September and ofOctober come round. Linnets and gold-finches were missing, too. The young rookswere flown, and no carrion crows frequentedthese parts. And there were no ferns ! Weconcluded that they had all been removedto gardens long ago, or dug up by hawkers forsale. The soil and damp, together with theabundance of shade, made this an idealnursery for them. It must be for such reasonsthat ferns are never seen until you get farout into the less visited country. At the 164 AMONGST THE WOODLAND BIRDS-
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Plate L : It was alongside the road, built in the twigsof an elm and well hidden. Nest of willow wren(J size). head of the lane Ted found the-nest of a willowwren, tucked away in the short branches ofan elm, five feet from the ground. It was a EARLY JUNE—OUR LAST EXCURSION 165 ■ ■^^^^ fmWS^ fcf^!*i^««8y^- ■ •^^^gK^^ B;^^^^2^H 10^^ ^^B ^fl I^^HH^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H^^Hj Plate LI : Much like a sedge- or reed-warbler, but the tint is palish ohve green. Willow wren (or warbler) (J size). neat globular domed nest, about the samesize as the common jinny wrens (Part I, p.83)^ and something like the house sparrows i66 AMONGST THE WOODLAND BIRDS— (Part I, pp. 101-2), with a hole at one sidefor entrance, as they have. It was alongsidethe road, but so well hidden that only apractised eye would have detected it, andmany people and vehicles must have passedclose to it. There was a heap of decayingstraw near by, from which the birds hadtaken the material to build their nest. Themale kept n

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