. Wild nature's ways . wd, full of bickerings andfalse alarms. When hard pressed by hunger,these birds will even descend dark rabbit burrowsin search of food. The frail brown wren hunts diligently through-out the winter months for torpid flies, spiders,and other small deer lurking amongst the moss-clad stones of old dry walls, under banks, andstumps of trees. Robin redbreasts seem to spend the whole ofthe winter months in fighting and feeding, witha little snatch of song now and again in praise oftheir accomplishments in both directions. It is 292 WILD NATURES WAYS. an exceedingly lucky thing
. Wild nature's ways . wd, full of bickerings andfalse alarms. When hard pressed by hunger,these birds will even descend dark rabbit burrowsin search of food. The frail brown wren hunts diligently through-out the winter months for torpid flies, spiders,and other small deer lurking amongst the moss-clad stones of old dry walls, under banks, andstumps of trees. Robin redbreasts seem to spend the whole ofthe winter months in fighting and feeding, witha little snatch of song now and again in praise oftheir accomplishments in both directions. It is 292 WILD NATURES WAYS. an exceedingly lucky thing for the human racethat its members are not troubled with appetitessimilar in capacity to those of robins. One dayI dug worms for a redbreast that kindly allowsme to share the tenancy of my garden with him,and by a process of careful calculation I workedout a sum which showed that if an ordinaryhealthy man possessed an appetite similar to thatof a redbreast, he would be able to consume abarrowload of sausages every A FAVOURITE DITCHFOR SNIPE IN WINTER. INDEX. Accidents to Birds, Strange, 76, 77, 277Actions of Birds tiiat make Shallow Nests, 250Affection, Maternal, of Starling, 49 ■ of a Common Guillemot, 233 Ailsa Craig, 225 , Dangers of, 226 Architecture of Reed Warbler, 200 Bass Rock, 224 Bees, Humble, 138 , , How they Repair Damage to their Nests, 140 , , Stealing Wrens Nests, 79 Beetles Natures Scavengers, 143 , Sexton, Burying a Rat, 144 Bird-food, Searching for. in Winter, 264 Bird-life in Woods, 151 Bird Robbery, 67 Birds, Actions of, that make Shallow Nests, 250 , Acuteness of Hearing of, 248 and Favourite Breeding Haunts, 64 Feline Sounds, 251 Insects, 68 New Mates, 66 • Severe Frosts, 285 their Food in Winter, 281 Wooden Eggs, 50 Attacking Human Beings, 237 Bathing in Winter, 235 , Credulity of, 165 , Cruelty to, 233 , Exchanging Young of, 74 , Hardships of, 264 . How to Feed, in Winter, 282 , Individuality of. 203 -^—, Intelligence and Affection of. 74 of
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