With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . )led overby a heavy fall of snow the previous winter. Beforelaying her eggs, the adaptor had scratched the sideof the structure out a little so as to create a have met witli several Oyster-catchers. OYSTER-CATCHERS NEST nests, consisting of hollows scratched in nice dry,soft earth, and lined—or, more strictly speaking,jDaved—with empty winkle and other small shellspicked up on the Ijeach behjw, and in one case, inthe South of Ireland, with one inlaid entirely withsun-dr
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . )led overby a heavy fall of snow the previous winter. Beforelaying her eggs, the adaptor had scratched the sideof the structure out a little so as to create a have met witli several Oyster-catchers. OYSTER-CATCHERS NEST nests, consisting of hollows scratched in nice dry,soft earth, and lined—or, more strictly speaking,jDaved—with empty winkle and other small shellspicked up on the Ijeach behjw, and in one case, inthe South of Ireland, with one inlaid entirely withsun-dried rablnts droppings. Last spring my brother, whilst staying with afriend at his country house in Norfolk, was showna li(jle in a hollow tree through which a pair ofJackdaws and innumerable Hone\^ ]3ees were con-stantly travelling to and from their i-espective nests N 194 11777/ XATVllE J XD A CAMEllA. in the utmost peace and liannony. Tlie birds wentdown the trunk and tlie bees u}) it. Birds of entirely different species sometimessliare the same nest, and yet live and go abouttheir business in perfect amity. A few years ago I watched a })air of Rooksand a pair of House Sparrows, close to the PrioryEoad, Hornsey, feeding their young at the sametime and at the same nest. The latter birds occu-pied the basement,
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