. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . ddetects them easily and takes them with anaudible snap of the beak. This habit hasgiven the spotted flycatcher the name of Post, Rafter, and Beam Bird, Bee Catcher,and the like. It is only during nesting timethat a pair are seen together, as we had seenthem in the morning. Some have calledthe bird mopy, and he gives one thisidea, as he sits alone with his head ratherdown on the shoulders and his legs bent, butthe idea is dispelled when his activity isnoticed. He is late in making his appearanceon our shores, arriving in May, a
. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . ddetects them easily and takes them with anaudible snap of the beak. This habit hasgiven the spotted flycatcher the name of Post, Rafter, and Beam Bird, Bee Catcher,and the like. It is only during nesting timethat a pair are seen together, as we had seenthem in the morning. Some have calledthe bird mopy, and he gives one thisidea, as he sits alone with his head ratherdown on the shoulders and his legs bent, butthe idea is dispelled when his activity isnoticed. He is late in making his appearanceon our shores, arriving in May, and leaving inSeptember or October. Sober tints charac-terize the plumage ; the upper parts are brown,the head streaked longitudinally with darkbrown, the under parts white streaked longi-tudinally with the same colour, and brownstreaks show on the breast—whence itsname (distinguishing it from the Pied Fly-catcher, quite a different bird, which iswhite on the under parts of the body—andis also much rarer and seldom found in EARLY JUNE—OUR LAST EXCURSION 177. Plate LVI : We thought it was asleep. FledgHngthrush waiting to be fed (i size). the south of England). There is a httlered on the sides, whilst the tail is male and female are much alike. It has —n. N 178 AMONGST THE WOODLAND BIRDS— no marked song, and only chirrups weaklynow and then. The dependence of a young bird upon itsparents for food, even though out of the nest,was well illustrated by a fledgling thrushwhich we discovered sitting patiently in thefork of a tree. It was in an expectant atti-tude, with its head thrown back, a positionfrom which it did not move whilst I took twoexposures at a distance of six feet of two anda half minutes each (the lens at F/32), neces-sitated by the bad light and the waning thought it was asleep, but when I ap-proached to remove an ivy leaf close to itshead that kept moving with the breeze, for athird photograph, it fluttered away with asqueal of distress
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