With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . IGHT. 247 our observations upon House Sparrows incline us totliink tliat tliey sleep sounder in sunnner than inwinter ; for durin^- the former season they are easierto approach and examine, with their heads buried intheir featliers, than in the latter. I think it will be found that the great majorityof birds sleep in similar situations to those in whichthey have been bred; however, there are manynotable exceptions to this rule. Pheasants arehatched on the ground, and roost in tree
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . IGHT. 247 our observations upon House Sparrows incline us totliink tliat tliey sleep sounder in sunnner than inwinter ; for durin^- the former season they are easierto approach and examine, with their heads buried intheir featliers, than in the latter. I think it will be found that the great majorityof birds sleep in similar situations to those in whichthey have been bred; however, there are manynotable exceptions to this rule. Pheasants arehatched on the ground, and roost in trees—aftertheir aulumn moult at uny rate; Fieldfares nest intrees, and often sleep upon the ground, as I haveproved again and again by Hushing them from barefields on dark winter nights. We have endeavoured to take photographs ofbirds on their roosts in sunnner-time, but found itimpossible on account of the thick foliage. Theaccompanying picture of a red undervving moth inthe act of sucking up an entomologists rum andtreacle from the bark of a tree, however, showsthe possibilities of tlie magnesium RED UNDERVVING MOTH. (Photographed by Magnesiitm ) CHAPTER VII. SEA-BIRDS AND THEIR HAUNTS. ALTHOUGtH at first sight tliis chapter may-^-^ appear to overlap to some extent those on and its feathered inhabitants, it will deallargely with birds which do not breed on theinaccessible home of Fulmar and Forked-tailedPetrels. The ])ictures and text have been broughttogether from such widely separated places as theFame Islands, Bass Pock, Ailsa Craig, Inner andOuter Hebrides, and the Saltees off the south coastof Ireland. During our visit to the Fames last sunnner wewere fortunate enough to be able to land upon tlieMegstone one calm day, and study, to ovu* lieartscontent, the fine colony of Cormorants breeding-there. The sun was hot, and the air almost still,and directly we set foot on the rock our nostrilswere assailed by the foulest imaginable stench,arisi
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