. Wild nature's ways . WOOD-WREN ON HAZEl TWIG. nevertheless very fond of breeding in cliffs situatedin woods and in clumps of hollow trees growinground old farmsteads. My brother photographedthe specimen shown on the following page whilstin the act of hammering some edible trifle whichho had just stolen from a neighbouring swinetrough. This species is endowed with very small eyes^ butgreat intelligence. On one occasion^ whilst stay-ing at an hotel in Dumfries, I threw some piecesof bread into the garden for the birds. Onejackdaw, bolder than his fellows, ventured closeup to the window^ throug
. Wild nature's ways . WOOD-WREN ON HAZEl TWIG. nevertheless very fond of breeding in cliffs situatedin woods and in clumps of hollow trees growinground old farmsteads. My brother photographedthe specimen shown on the following page whilstin the act of hammering some edible trifle whichho had just stolen from a neighbouring swinetrough. This species is endowed with very small eyes^ butgreat intelligence. On one occasion^ whilst stay-ing at an hotel in Dumfries, I threw some piecesof bread into the garden for the birds. Onejackdaw, bolder than his fellows, ventured closeup to the window^ through which I was looking,for the food, and sensibly took away two crustswith him at once into a tree, where he held themdown to a branch with his feet whilst he vigor- i64 WILD NATURES <ic- T JACKDAW ON POST. ously liamiiKTcd them with liis bill into piecessmall enough to be swallowed. The self-satisfted pair of young jackdawsfigured in our illustration were photographeddirectly after the}^ had left their home in ahollow tree. In little scattered woods, high up amongstthe ^^elsll mountains, also in the heart of theCumberland and Westmoreland Fells, a greatmany pairs of redstarts may be found utilise small holes in trees, rocks, and olddry walls, as a rule ; but one day, I was surprisedto find a nest in a little corner on a grassy bankwhere a meadow pipit might have built. Placing the stick, figured in our illustrations BIRDS OF WOODLAND AND HEDGEROW. 165 on page 167, in the ground hard by for the birdsto ahght upon when they brought food for theirchicks, I pitched my hiding tent close at hand, andcovering it with colts-foot leaves, left it for a dayor two, in order that the redstarts might getthoroughly inured to its intrusive presence beforeI start
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