. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . in evidence in the autumn and winter. In the nestingseason it keeps \ery (piiet, and chooses the thickest hedgesand the most retired places in the woods, and shuns noticeas much as possible. In walking along the bare hedges inwinter, i^reat numbers of their nests may be seen, whichhave escaped obser\ation during the leafy months of summer. The Corn-l)unting is scarce, the reason probably being,as Saunders remarks in his Manual of British Birds,that it is principally to be found where grain of some W A sjmK / r y W r •*■ p/r m w
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . in evidence in the autumn and winter. In the nestingseason it keeps \ery (piiet, and chooses the thickest hedgesand the most retired places in the woods, and shuns noticeas much as possible. In walking along the bare hedges inwinter, i^reat numbers of their nests may be seen, whichhave escaped obser\ation during the leafy months of summer. The Corn-l)unting is scarce, the reason probably being,as Saunders remarks in his Manual of British Birds,that it is principally to be found where grain of some W A sjmK / r y W r •*■ p/r m w r^^V«MBiiC>S^iw \:\ J P^HB^^^fel/M y^ ^^ ir^^m wG^KRlmi^^^^^^JSIl 1 Rook {Ccrvi/s fnigi/egns) and Nest. 118 Pictures of Bird Life kind is orowii, and where arable land is turned into grazingground the Corn-bunting is scarce or even disappears. The Yellow-hammer, or Yellow hunting, is connnonenough at all seasons. Its soniewliat monotonous song,Avliich is supposed to sound like A little bit of breadand no cheese, is very familiar, for it is somewhat of a. roadside bird, where it may frequently be seen on the topof some small tree or bush. The dusty herbage of theroadside bank is quite as often chosen as a site for itsnest as the greener and fresher field bank. It is, too,nearly as fond of furze as the I^innct. The Reed - bunting (or Reed - sparrow) is given to Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 110 marshes and damp situations, though it is l)y no meansrestricted to reeds. In one small osier-bed (since drained)I always found one pair of birds nestino-. The birds, 1ha\e thought sometimes, try to delude you as to the trueposition of their nest by great pretended anxiety when youare searching in quite the wrong direction. Tliis may beonly fancy on my part ; but be that as it may, the nestis by no means an easy one to find. The cock is one of our handsomest native its colours cannot compete with the brilliance ofthe Kingfisher, yet it makes in its way quite as effec
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