. The birds of the British Isles and their eggs . s I have seen the bird boldly assaulted by Lap-wings and Starlings when it was quartering the ground ; itmade no attempt to retaliate, but merely swerved from theirattacks. It will eat Starlings and larger birds ; I have knowna Coot and Teal to be killed and partly eaten. The nest is always on the ground, amongst heather or on asmall space trodden down by the birds amongst thick vegeta-tion ; it is built of heather, sticks, rushes, grass or any con-venient material, and may have a full soft lining of finer bentsor be practically unlined. It var
. The birds of the British Isles and their eggs . s I have seen the bird boldly assaulted by Lap-wings and Starlings when it was quartering the ground ; itmade no attempt to retaliate, but merely swerved from theirattacks. It will eat Starlings and larger birds ; I have knowna Coot and Teal to be killed and partly eaten. The nest is always on the ground, amongst heather or on asmall space trodden down by the birds amongst thick vegeta-tion ; it is built of heather, sticks, rushes, grass or any con-venient material, and may have a full soft lining of finer bentsor be practically unlined. It varies considerably in size andfinish, but untidy, badly constructed nests are probably secondefforts after first clutches have been destroyed. The four tosix eggs are usually laid in April or early May, and only onebrood is reared, but late clutches, the result of accident to thefirst, are frequently found, and these are in hurriedly con-structed nests, for the bird apparently does not lay again in a b ■.-^4> .^. ■ ^ ^ > ;>A-^ ?/:f^fe.
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