. Birds of the water, wood & waste . hat their offspring can do withoutthem for longer periods, and that closerattendance and constant feeding are nolonger necessary. With species such as theWarbler, the Waxeye, and the Fantail, thecamera will be least regarded between thethird and tenth days. No generalisationis possible, of course, but after the youngare a few days old, no parent birds, saveindeed Harriers, will leave their broodunless driven off by very gross blunderingand mismanagement. The earliest Tuis nest got this year wason November 12th. I believe it was notfinished, but did not care
. Birds of the water, wood & waste . hat their offspring can do withoutthem for longer periods, and that closerattendance and constant feeding are nolonger necessary. With species such as theWarbler, the Waxeye, and the Fantail, thecamera will be least regarded between thethird and tenth days. No generalisationis possible, of course, but after the youngare a few days old, no parent birds, saveindeed Harriers, will leave their broodunless driven off by very gross blunderingand mismanagement. The earliest Tuis nest got this year wason November 12th. I believe it was notfinished, but did not care to climb up forfear of doing harm. On the 23rd the Tuiwas on the nest. She was sitting hard,and probably the eggs were just any rate, I boiled my billy and lunchednot far from the tree, and satisfied myselfthat neither of the parents was bringingin supplies. On the 11th December the nestlings weregone, and inspection of the broken shellchips, fragments without doubt from incu-bated eggs, the soiled condition of the nest. Tins Nest in Tarat WOOD AND WASTE 151 and its tilt all told of a brood safelyreared. There were, therefore, in all probabilityeggs in this nest on the 23rd, and they hadhatched out and gone by the 11th, and, ofcourse, possibly even earlier. I got another nest on the 26th Novembercontaining a single egg, and on the 11th ofDecember there were young in the nest. Howmany of the young were at that timehatched, and what their age might then havebeen I cannot tell, as again I was satisfiedwith the knowledge that they were out ofthe shell and feared to disturb the parentbirds. Late in November and early in Decemberis the height of the Tuis breeding that date we knew of five or sixnests, and four of them were in one patchof bush about a couple of acres in got a nest on January 1st, with a fresh eggjust broken, and McLean got the last nestof the season, with four eggs, on the 7th. The Tui sometimes builds in a ^cup ofsmall branches, oft
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