. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. S0M3 BIRDS JJESTS. 324 Animal Life. I\IOOI!Hi;>. ?reflect tlie suns rays on it and its contentswith a mirror in order to penetrate thedarkness, the camera itself being tied in tliebonghs outside the hole. I am inclined tothink that some of the sticks shown in thephotograph may have lodged there beforethe owl commenced to nest, as there werejackdaws building close at hand. The next photograpli is that of a softlittle nest of the SandMartin. In order toobtain a photograph ofthis it was first necessaryto scrape away the sand
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. S0M3 BIRDS JJESTS. 324 Animal Life. I\IOOI!Hi;>. ?reflect tlie suns rays on it and its contentswith a mirror in order to penetrate thedarkness, the camera itself being tied in tliebonghs outside the hole. I am inclined tothink that some of the sticks shown in thephotograph may have lodged there beforethe owl commenced to nest, as there werejackdaws building close at hand. The next photograpli is that of a softlittle nest of the SandMartin. In order toobtain a photograph ofthis it was first necessaryto scrape away the sanduntil the extremity ofthe hole was reached;then I had to stick oneleg of the camera in thesandbank and affix longpoles to the other legs;in this way I managedto get the camera highenough to expose theplate. Next comes thephotograph of a Gold-finchs nest, with itseggs. This particularnest was placed on ahorizontal bough of anapple tree; but thegoldfinch generallybuilds more at the endof the branch. Some-times the bird selects ayew tree; its nest israrely found in hedge-rows. The one in thephotograph
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