With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . YOUNG GROUSE clumsy shepheid tread upon one, and the poorbird left all her tail feathers finnly pinned betwixtthe edi^C of her nest and his iion-])lated l)oot toe. A good gamekeep(>r having a Grouse moor underhis charge tak(>s pains to bc^ on the best of termswitli shepherds, as a clutch of eggs is easily troddenon by accident or otlierwise, and i\\v driving of atiock of slicep at a brisk pace across a few acicsof healher in Mnv is likely to ])r<)duce a good dealof disa])
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . YOUNG GROUSE clumsy shepheid tread upon one, and the poorbird left all her tail feathers finnly pinned betwixtthe edi^C of her nest and his iion-])lated l)oot toe. A good gamekeep(>r having a Grouse moor underhis charge tak(>s pains to bc^ on the best of termswitli shepherds, as a clutch of eggs is easily troddenon by accident or otlierwise, and i\\v driving of atiock of slicep at a brisk pace across a few acicsof healher in Mnv is likely to ])r<)duce a good dealof disa])poiiiliiieii1 in August. Shepherds dogs, too,often need careful watchin;^-, as the\ will occasionallx. GROUSES NEST IN RUSHES. Vri WITH XATrnr: ami a camkra. kill .sittiii,ii hens before they can get off their nestsand swallow wee poults in the most businc^ss-like way. T knew one great laiikv conspieuous-ribbed mongrel in North Yorkshire that was guiltyof this and another eurious practice. He must havebeen of French extraction, for he would swallowyoung frogs as fast as lie could iind them. Sheep farmers cats often take to a feral lifeand do a great amount of damage amongst Grousein the breeding season. Some tive or six years agoI was out with a gamekeeper in the Xorth of Eng-land aft(M- a Sparrow-hawk that had made her nestin a little glnU which divided a nund:)er of heather-clad pastures that were full of sitting Grouse. Incrossing one of these pastures, on our way to anotherpart of the beat, we came upon an ominous-lookingtrain of feathers. In oiu^ direction it led to a head-less .female Grouse, and in the other to a nest con-taining- seven eggs, from thr(>e of which protrudedthe
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