. The story of hedgerow and pond . ck all over outside with whitelichen and spiders webs. It hardlylooks like a nest, for it is all covered up,and there doesnt seem any room for abird, or any opening where she couldget in. But near the top there is a178 and Their Homes small hole, and if you stand very stillperhaps you will see one of the birdscreep from twig to twig and slip silentlyinto this hole. Then she turns roundinside until her head faces the hole, andthe long tail sticks out over her two of them are in the nestin this curious fashion at the same it is all co
. The story of hedgerow and pond . ck all over outside with whitelichen and spiders webs. It hardlylooks like a nest, for it is all covered up,and there doesnt seem any room for abird, or any opening where she couldget in. But near the top there is a178 and Their Homes small hole, and if you stand very stillperhaps you will see one of the birdscreep from twig to twig and slip silentlyinto this hole. Then she turns roundinside until her head faces the hole, andthe long tail sticks out over her two of them are in the nestin this curious fashion at the same it is all comfortably and thicklylined with feathers, and here they layseveral little pointed eggs. There aresometimes eight, nine, or even ten ofthese eggs; and when they are allhatched and ten little bottle-tits besidesthe parents all live in it, it is veryclosely packed, as you may the whole nest isnt much largerthan a cricket-ball. And then one fineday all the little bottle-tits pop out oftheir bottle to see the world. Away179. Three Feathered Mites they go, some rightside up, and someupside-down, and all of them cutting allsorts of merry capers, and saying to eachother in their bottle-tit language, zi-zi—zi-zi. That means, Here I am, followme, and they all follow one anotherthrough the world, keeping together. Other birds, when they grow bigenough to feed themselves, leave theirparents altogether and never see themagain, or if they do see them, dontknow them any more than if they werestrangers. And the parents dont minda bit, because they very often make anew nest and lay another clutch of eggs,and soon have another family of youngones to feed, and are much too busy tothink anything more of the first lot, anddont want to be bothered with have tenderly brought them upi8o and Their Homes and taught them to feed themselves, andto fly about and to take care of them-selves generally, so they consider theyhave done all they can for them, anddont bother their heads an
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