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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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od is chiefly insects(often taken on the wing like the fly-catcher),but it is also fond of ripe fruit. Second nestsare rare. There is also the Lesser White-throat, a somewhat smaller and much rarervisitor than the other. Its eggs are whiteor dull buff marked with greenish-brownblotches and markings of purplish grey. At last we came to the lane, which was along one with scarcely any houses or cottages,and a veritable paradise for birds. It con-tinued for at least three miles, and was skirtedon each side all the way by a thick hedge ofmay, at the foot of which ran a ditch ; insidethis again was a width of grass, such as isfound in many old country roads, originallyintended for horse-riders, but now overgrownwith brambles ; these are most likely spotsfor low-built nests, Outside were meadows EARLY JUNE—OUR LAST EXCURSION i6i or woods, the breeding grounds of pheasants,partridges and rabbits galore. Now andagain a bunny would pop across the laneimmediately in front of us, a common habit
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Plate XLIX : At one end of the lane there was a pondto which the birds could resort. with him, just to take stock of whatevermight be there—a trick, however, of whichthe sportsman takes advantage, not to thepoor rabbits benefit. At one end of the lane B.N.—II. M i62 AMONGST THE WOODLAND BIRDS— there was a pond to which the birds couldresort, and whither the cattle from a grazingherd came when thirsty. Besides this, thelittle brook before mentioned betrayed its pre-sence now and then where not hidden by thegreenery. Thrushes and blackbirds as usualfavoured the hedges chiefly, and we foundmany of their nests. The woodpigeons pre-ferred higher positions in trees, and here againwe noticed several of their nests half finished.Perhaps one of the reasons why these birds,as well as blackbirds, thrushes and wrens, donot complete their nests is that they areinterfered with by egg hunters. From traceswe found some one had already been thatway, and more than once. We lookedcarefully for a n

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