. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . both plates,and, owing to the difficulty of the situation, only exposedthe same plate twice over, thereby spoiling both! The Redstart is often met with, though it can hardly bedescribed as conmion. It is a conspicuously beautiful bird, andthe nest is sufficiently scarce to be worth finding. Holes inold apple- and pear-trees are fa^ourite places ; the one shown 72 Pictures of Bird Life was in a sycamore-tree, at a most convenient height fromtlic oTound. The six eggs were exactly as they appear inthe photograph, phiinly visible f
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . both plates,and, owing to the difficulty of the situation, only exposedthe same plate twice over, thereby spoiling both! The Redstart is often met with, though it can hardly bedescribed as conmion. It is a conspicuously beautiful bird, andthe nest is sufficiently scarce to be worth finding. Holes inold apple- and pear-trees are fa^ourite places ; the one shown 72 Pictures of Bird Life was in a sycamore-tree, at a most convenient height fromtlic oTound. The six eggs were exactly as they appear inthe photograph, phiinly visible from the ontside, which is not nsually thecase. The Red-breast is with-out doubt THEbird of thesuburbs — theuniversal andfavoured fre-q u enter o fe^ery cheery songd u r i n g thewinter, whenother songstersare silent, andits familiarboldness, makeit a welcomeo- u e s t wit heverybody, andone pardons it for its greediness and pugnacity. i\v() ri\al Robins willfight with a fierce disregard of consequences almost incrediblein a bird of such small Nest ov Long-iailed Tit (Acicdula uiiidata). Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 73 Tlie l{()l)in iiiuy. with ji little perseverance, be induced tofeed from ones hand, and to enter a room throu(>h the openwindow, and its ways are then very enin_-. It is alwaysa mystery to me how it escapes the claws of the prowlingcat. AVhile nestino- operations are in ])rof)Tcss, however.
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