. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. hey leavethe shells. I was able to get near them one day, asthey were all swimming about near th«ir nest. Theparents were there also, and seemed to be in a greatstate of excitement. Instead of diving, the young allscuttled towards their mother, and a very pretty thinghappened. She slightly raised her wings, and theyoungsters—five in all—crowded underneath. When allwere out of sight she dived, with her family under herwings, and came up some considerable distance alone shows what perfect swimmers and diverstliese e
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. hey leavethe shells. I was able to get near them one day, asthey were all swimming about near th«ir nest. Theparents were there also, and seemed to be in a greatstate of excitement. Instead of diving, the young allscuttled towards their mother, and a very pretty thinghappened. She slightly raised her wings, and theyoungsters—five in all—crowded underneath. When allwere out of sight she dived, with her family under herwings, and came up some considerable distance alone shows what perfect swimmers and diverstliese extremely interesting birds are. When the youngwere about four weeks old the parents constructedanother nest, but this was blown from its mooringsduiing a violent storm. However, a third nest wasmade in a more secure place, and the eggs were dulyhatched. A share in looking after the second broodfalls to the lot of the young of the first family; andwhen all these are full grown they make their way to1 WINS NTS 1 other ponds, and are sometimes even driven by then. 236 Animal Life The RavensLittle Ruse. parents, thus leaving the latter in sole possession of a haunt where there is not sufficient accommodation. One-room life or overcrowding is far from being in accordance with the views of the knowing old birds of the little grebe a great many years ago ravens used to breed in our inland counties. The tree still stands in which the last pairbred in Middlesex. Still, these birds are notaltogether confined to the wildest parts of ourcoasts, for in one or two well-protected inland spots they still build and lay. It was in one of these inland breeding haunts that I saw and studied the habits of these outlaws of the air. I call /^fti them outlaws because they have been driven from most of our English counties by powder and shot, through an erroneous idea that our raven kills and takes lambs and other small animals. In this respect, however, the raven is not such a confirm
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