. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . ■^-■^Tf : r* • 4. End of Bee-eaters Nesting Burrow {Mctops apiaster). and hard at work ])hotograpliing the birds, as they chisteredthickly on the topmost twigs of tlie buslies in all sorts ofgrotesque and curious attitudes. As soon as one bird liadgrasped a slender twig in its awkward-looking feet, andwhile still struggling to preserve its balance in the highw4nd, another one would fly up and knock it off, onlyitself to be ousted by a third a moment afterwards. Otherswere constantly flying roimd and attempting to settle, and Bi
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . ■^-■^Tf : r* • 4. End of Bee-eaters Nesting Burrow {Mctops apiaster). and hard at work ])hotograpliing the birds, as they chisteredthickly on the topmost twigs of tlie buslies in all sorts ofgrotesque and curious attitudes. As soon as one bird liadgrasped a slender twig in its awkward-looking feet, andwhile still struggling to preserve its balance in the highw4nd, another one would fly up and knock it off, onlyitself to be ousted by a third a moment afterwards. Otherswere constantly flying roimd and attempting to settle, and Bird Life in the Spanish Marismas 309 eaeli individual ])ird added its quota to the unceasing babelof extraordinary croaks, oriuits, and groans witli wliicli allthe Heron family express tlieniselves. Tlie sand-dunesaround were also thickly co^ered with masses of birds,which would e\ery now and then again rise and circleround and round, protesting witli all their miglit againstoiu intrusion into their own particular domain. The busheswere full of their nests—mere sliglit platforms
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