. British birds. Birds. VOL. XIII.] . NOTES. 273 STRANGE NESTING-PLACE OF COAL-TIT. The spiked iron object in the accompanying photograph was a disused gas-heating boiler or circulator used for greenhouses. The size can be judged by the length of the hammer. It was dumped on a gravel pathway close to the wooden greenhouse in a garden at Newbury, Berks. It will be seen that it had two pipes of small circumference. indicated by the points A and B. In the spring of 1919 a pair of Coal-Tits {Parus a. britannicus) used this boiler as a nesting-place and the young hatched out. The old birds were ver
. British birds. Birds. VOL. XIII.] . NOTES. 273 STRANGE NESTING-PLACE OF COAL-TIT. The spiked iron object in the accompanying photograph was a disused gas-heating boiler or circulator used for greenhouses. The size can be judged by the length of the hammer. It was dumped on a gravel pathway close to the wooden greenhouse in a garden at Newbury, Berks. It will be seen that it had two pipes of small circumference. indicated by the points A and B. In the spring of 1919 a pair of Coal-Tits {Parus a. britannicus) used this boiler as a nesting-place and the young hatched out. The old birds were very tame and I watched them constantly taking in food. They went in and returned through the pipe A, the B pipe having been plugged to keep out vermin. I think one of the parent birds was killed, as the young were aban- doned. We afterwards broke up the boiler and found the remains of six young. J. H. 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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