. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . XI: A COSY (nightingales) nest with threeWARM EGGS Q-size). we were well contented with our find. Wefeasted our ears long after this on many asong, trying to catch the variations in thesweet orchestra, by this performer or by 30 DOWN NIGHTINGALE VALLEY: that. The nightingale loves to sing in quiet,leafy boweries of XII: We could see them as they sang just OVERHEAD. ThE MALE NIGHTINGALE (f-size). We crept up stealthily to the place from EARLY MAY 31 which the notes came, remaining still as micewhen we got near. Often the
. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . XI: A COSY (nightingales) nest with threeWARM EGGS Q-size). we were well contented with our find. Wefeasted our ears long after this on many asong, trying to catch the variations in thesweet orchestra, by this performer or by 30 DOWN NIGHTINGALE VALLEY: that. The nightingale loves to sing in quiet,leafy boweries of XII: We could see them as they sang just OVERHEAD. ThE MALE NIGHTINGALE (f-size). We crept up stealthily to the place from EARLY MAY 31 which the notes came, remaining still as micewhen we got near. Often the birds allowed usto approach so close that we could see themas they sang just overhead, absorbed in rhap-sody for many minutes at a time, piping outtheir lullabies. The plumage of the nightin-gale is very plain : brown and grey are theonly colours that the birds display; theback is brown, the breast a brownish leave this country with their young inJuly or the next month without fail. As we sat and watched the nightingales,we became aware that they were not theonly occupants of this secluded dell, formore than once we had heard the triple, andsomitimes four times, loud, and oft-repeatednotes (see page 147) of that peculiar bird thewryneck, so called from the wriggles whichit gives its neck when in an excited is also called the cuckoos mate, for itarrives just at
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