British Birds Nests How Where And When to Find And Identify Them
The book British Birds Nests How Where And When to Find And Identify Them was written by author Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928 Here you can read free online of British Birds Nests How Where And When to Find And Identify Them book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is British Birds Nests How Where And When to Find And Identify Them a good or bad book?
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In high rough hedges, thorn bushes in woods, and on rough commons. Our illustration is from a photograph of a nest in a slight thorn bush, surrounded by hazels and big trees in a small Siirrey spinney, where I meet with a nest every year regularly. I found a Bed-backed Shrike's nest in a low bramble bush, intermixed with rushes, two years ago close to London. The nest was not more than eighteen inches from the ground, and within a few feet of a much-used turn- pike lane. The cock bird was so bo...ld that he came within four feet of me as I stood looking at BRITISH BIRDS 9 NESTS. 253 his mate sitting upon her eggs. Breeds pretty generally over England, with the exception of the extreme north, but is rarely met with in Scotland or Ireland. Materials. Slender twigs, dead grass, stalks, dead weeds, honeysuckle sterns and stalks, roots, wool, moss, and sometimes feathers, lined with hair, sometimes with willow catkins and fine, fibrous roots. As a rule it is a very large nest for the size of the bird ; but I have noticed that specimens differ in this respect as well as in the character of the materials employed in their construction.
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