. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . Plate I : The birds must have been building onChristmas Day—almost a record time of the yearthis, for a robins nest with eggs. (J size.) garden on the outskirts of London. Havingobtained a ready permission to photograph it, A PAIR MADE A CURIOUS MISTAKE 3 I hastened thither on the 5th with my was built six feet from the ground, underthe bole of a decrepit mulberry tree that of. Plate II : Old mulberry tree under which the pre-ceding nest was built. course had no leaves as yet. The stumpleaned westwards, thus protectin
. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . Plate I : The birds must have been building onChristmas Day—almost a record time of the yearthis, for a robins nest with eggs. (J size.) garden on the outskirts of London. Havingobtained a ready permission to photograph it, A PAIR MADE A CURIOUS MISTAKE 3 I hastened thither on the 5th with my was built six feet from the ground, underthe bole of a decrepit mulberry tree that of. Plate II : Old mulberry tree under which the pre-ceding nest was built. course had no leaves as yet. The stumpleaned westwards, thus protecting the neston the east. (This tree, like many old trees,had a history. It was said to have been 4 WINTER AND THE ROBINS, AND HOW planted by Queen Ann.) The nest wascomfortably tucked into a cavity in thetottering trunk where once a branch limb had decayed and was sawn off close,and further rot had enlarged the hole. Itwas also partly supported by some youngtwigs, almost the dying effort of the agedstump. It was beautifully made of the deadand curled-up leaves of a privet (of whichseveral bushes grew close by), on a found-ation of sticks, and was neatly and plenti-fully lined with small soft feathers of variouskinds. (This nest shows how birds oftenvary the material of their nests, choosingthat which is nearest and the easiest to the description of the usual nest of arobin further on.) The eggs were a reddish-white speckled all o
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