. Birds through the year . aze of winding passages, or where (. or where afrost - split rock hasshifted, forming a deep,snug crack. Sincewheatears like smoothturf, they are apt to befound in sheltered hol-lows where the sheepgather and graze yearafter year, by the streamsand the upland folds ; and often where a lonely shepherds cot-tage has tumbled into ruin, the only sign of life is the wheatearflitting with its conspicuous patch of white from the fallenwall, and perhaps a black magpies nest stuck high in an oldapple-tree by the gateway In her narrow labyrinth amongthe stones, the wheatear ca
. Birds through the year . aze of winding passages, or where (. or where afrost - split rock hasshifted, forming a deep,snug crack. Sincewheatears like smoothturf, they are apt to befound in sheltered hol-lows where the sheepgather and graze yearafter year, by the streamsand the upland folds ; and often where a lonely shepherds cot-tage has tumbled into ruin, the only sign of life is the wheatearflitting with its conspicuous patch of white from the fallenwall, and perhaps a black magpies nest stuck high in an oldapple-tree by the gateway In her narrow labyrinth amongthe stones, the wheatear can nest without fear of the wickedmagpie, which otherwise might prove a too dangerousneighbour for her eggs and young. Magpies are fond ofnesting in the clumps of thorns which nestle in the highhollows of the moors ; they return to them in March, or evenFebruary, and by the time that the old hawthorns break intowhite blossom late in May, the nest is usually crammed fullwith a mass of pied fledgelings. The gravelly spits and. WHEATEAR
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