. Wild nature's ways . hours of the morning, when I think, out ofdi^like for the dew-laden vegetation, it mountsthe topmost branch of some sallow bush oradvantageously high reed stem to exercise itsvocal organs. I have watched it turning itshead from side to side in the first rosy blush ofsunrise, whilst the grasshopper-like notes trickledfrom its quivering throat in one long, unbrokenstream. Although common on the Norfolk Broads,where its notes may be heard to the greatestadvantage on account of the almost unbrokenpeace and stillness, water is not such an essential. MALE BEARDED TIT ON NEST.
. Wild nature's ways . hours of the morning, when I think, out ofdi^like for the dew-laden vegetation, it mountsthe topmost branch of some sallow bush oradvantageously high reed stem to exercise itsvocal organs. I have watched it turning itshead from side to side in the first rosy blush ofsunrise, whilst the grasshopper-like notes trickledfrom its quivering throat in one long, unbrokenstream. Although common on the Norfolk Broads,where its notes may be heard to the greatestadvantage on account of the almost unbrokenpeace and stillness, water is not such an essential. MALE BEARDED TIT ON NEST. 212 WILD NATURES WAYS. to its existence as good cover in the shape ofrank grass furze bushes and old tangled hedgerows. When a grasshopper warbler leaves her nest,she travels through the grass by such peculiarlyquick httlc niammahan-like movements that, takenwith lier size and colour, she is absolutely certainto make the novice exclaim : Ah, there goes amouse ! and often she deceives the experiencedfield naturalist. In returning to her nest thebird also progresses in short rushes, stoppingever and anon to listen in a way very suggestiveof the tactics of a mouse. I had a nest belonging to this species underthe closest obser\ation for several days last May,and exposed three or four dozen plates upon thefemale owner, who became so convinced of thehaimlessness of m}- intentions that she would sitquite still in spite of being uncovered, as shownin our illustration, whilst I knelt in full view ofher, and less than a couple of feet away. Overand over again, when I l
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