. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . close to the ^ banks and amid the roots of trees are alsoprobable sites for their nests. While I was engaged in photographing one nest on anold tree-stump overhanging a small islet, just below thejunction of the Dove and the Manifold, my friend wasseated on the bank watching with his Goerz prismaticglass a Sandpiper, which was calling on the farther bankbet^^ecn sixty and a hundred yards away. It says a gooddeal for the power of this glass tliat he was able, at sucha distance, to watch such a slender form as a
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . close to the ^ banks and amid the roots of trees are alsoprobable sites for their nests. While I was engaged in photographing one nest on anold tree-stump overhanging a small islet, just below thejunction of the Dove and the Manifold, my friend wasseated on the bank watching with his Goerz prismaticglass a Sandpiper, which was calling on the farther bankbet^^ecn sixty and a hundred yards away. It says a gooddeal for the power of this glass tliat he was able, at sucha distance, to watch such a slender form as a crouchingSandpiper creep through the long grass and finally settleon her nest. AValking round to the nearest bridge a quarterof a mile downstream, we came back up the opposite bankand went right to the nest, from wliich the bird Hew. Itcontained three young birds and an egg on the point ofhatchin-. Another bird which haunts these rocky streams is theGrey AVagtail, the most elegant, perhaps, of a particularlyelegant family. It may be distinguished from the other. 3(>8 Pictures of Bird Life Waoliiils by the greater leiio-tli of its tiiil. Kiidcr the «4hissthe (^rey A\agtail is of (juite exceptional beauty ; l)iit itbreeds early, and I did not meet with any nests. Among the rocky towers and pinnacles whicli o\erhangDovedale, and add so much to its l)eauty. Kestrels breedin comparative safety. Climbing on hands and knees up anarrow gorge in searcli of their nest, we heard some young-Kestrels chatter loudly, as one of tlie parents sailed roundinto view : and though they were e\idently, from the sound,(juite close to us, sluit in as we were between two rock-walls, it w^as impossible to locate exactly the position of thenest. We worked our way up to the top, coming down onthe other side of the most probable rock, but failed todiscover it. In all probability we should have been imable,without a rope, to ascend the extra twenty or thirty feetwhich separated us from the nest. Jackda
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