. British birds. Birds. VOL. vn.] â NOTES. 267 CURIOUS MISHAP TO KESTREL'S EGGS. On May 17th, 1913, my friend, the Rev. D. A. Scott, and I visited the eyrie of a Kestrel {Falco t. tinnunculus) in a rock, of which he knew. The bird flew off. On getting to the eyrie I found rather a remarkable state of affairs. The five eggs were embedded in a mass of pellets, as shown in the accompanying photograph, and the bird was incubating them in this extraordinary position. Mr. Scott visited the site again on May 27th and found that two of the five. jSEST of kestrel showing eggs embedded m REMAINS OP PELL
. British birds. Birds. VOL. vn.] â NOTES. 267 CURIOUS MISHAP TO KESTREL'S EGGS. On May 17th, 1913, my friend, the Rev. D. A. Scott, and I visited the eyrie of a Kestrel {Falco t. tinnunculus) in a rock, of which he knew. The bird flew off. On getting to the eyrie I found rather a remarkable state of affairs. The five eggs were embedded in a mass of pellets, as shown in the accompanying photograph, and the bird was incubating them in this extraordinary position. Mr. Scott visited the site again on May 27th and found that two of the five. jSEST of kestrel showing eggs embedded m REMAINS OP PELLETS. eggs Mere entirely covered, one of them to the depth of half an inch, and only a very small portion of the other three could be seen. The site had been occupied in other seasons, and as it was somewhat sheltered, no doubt a certain amount of fragments of pellets from previous years had remained on the ledge ; these, and those ejected shortly before and after the eggs were laid, had doubtless been softened by rain and the eggs had sunk into them. The covering process would be assisted by pellets ejected as incubation progressed. I visited the place after the nesting-season and found the remains of the eggs lying broken in the eyrie. It is curious to note that the bird apparently made no effort to keep the eggs free from the surrounding material. Eric B, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Witherby & Co
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