. Wild bird protection and nesting boxes ... and a full list of the orders made under the "Wild Birds Protection Acts" .. . wk Owl, Tengmalms Owl, Smew, Goosander,and Red-breasted Merganser are all consideredmore or less as intruders, and they frequently evictthe rightful owners from the nest boxes and takeup residence in them themselves. I have thought it well to give these interestingobservations made by Mr. Sutton Davies to showwhat has been done, no doubt for generations, inSwedish Lapland, in order to encourage birds of theduck tribe to nest, although, of course, not so muchwith the desir
. Wild bird protection and nesting boxes ... and a full list of the orders made under the "Wild Birds Protection Acts" .. . wk Owl, Tengmalms Owl, Smew, Goosander,and Red-breasted Merganser are all consideredmore or less as intruders, and they frequently evictthe rightful owners from the nest boxes and takeup residence in them themselves. I have thought it well to give these interestingobservations made by Mr. Sutton Davies to showwhat has been done, no doubt for generations, inSwedish Lapland, in order to encourage birds of theduck tribe to nest, although, of course, not so muchwith the desire to protect these birds and theirbroods, as to obtain their eggs for food. These careful observations show us how easilyeven some of our rarest birds might be induced tobreed with us in suitable localities if appropriatenest boxes were provided for their use. Tlien we read in the Second Series of those mostinteresting Essays on Natural History, by thelate Charles Waterton, of that safe Retreat andAsylum for Wild Birds wliicli he so successfullyestablished in his Park at Walton in Yorkshire, and NESTING BOXES, ETC. 37. Pig. -2.—Closed Nest Box, prepared for the nesting of theGohleneye Duck, observed by Mr. Sutton Davies at Adolf-stroiii, Swedish Lapland. NESTING BOXES, ETC. 89 the means he provided for the nesting of Owls,Starlings, and many other Wild Birds in tlie oldTower near the Hall. The success that attended his efforts towardsBird Protection appears clearly in the pleasurewith which he writes (p. 192), I have succeededin getting the Barn Owl, the Brown Owl, theHeron, the Jackdaw, the Magpie, the Carrion Crow,the Mallard, the Pheasant, the Starling, the Wood-pecker, the Ox Eye Titmouse, the Waterhen, theThrush, and the Blackbird to build their nestsand take away their young in safety, at a stone-throw of each other. Of recent years many of my friends have corres-ponded with me on the subject of nesting boxes,and while some have expressed surprise that WildBirds should
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