. Birds of the water, wood & waste . ^^^VH ^jjy-^PjB itMif -11 iiMmliBiffi Feeding Time. PLATE \ ouiio halcon. WOOD AND WASTE 117 proportionately good supply. As the nest-lings develop they begin to wander, andlong before fit for flight have ventured yardsaway from the original site, hopping andscrambling with great agility. For severalweeks, and long after becoming fullyfledged they are still tended, and probablypartly fed by the old birds. The young, when molested, throw them-selves upon their backs and strike fiercelywith their talons, uttering the while ayelling Mephistophelian lau
. Birds of the water, wood & waste . ^^^VH ^jjy-^PjB itMif -11 iiMmliBiffi Feeding Time. PLATE \ ouiio halcon. WOOD AND WASTE 117 proportionately good supply. As the nest-lings develop they begin to wander, andlong before fit for flight have ventured yardsaway from the original site, hopping andscrambling with great agility. For severalweeks, and long after becoming fullyfledged they are still tended, and probablypartly fed by the old birds. The young, when molested, throw them-selves upon their backs and strike fiercelywith their talons, uttering the while ayelling Mephistophelian laughter. The beakis not at first used in defence; it is stilltoo soft, but the claws of a half-grownFalcon will start blood. Probably not many Falcons nests aretaken, and probably, too, not many broodsdestroyed. The eyries are often inaccessible,and the parent birds too fierce and devotedto allow the approach of vermin. Even to them, however accidents dooccur, and this season a brood underobservation, when about half-grown, weredestroyed. At first I believed it to havebeen the work of a neighbours r
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