honey-buzzard's

Updated: May 26, 2025

I went with Brian. That wasn't naughty, was it? the boy asked, innocently. 'Naughty to stay away so long to go so far. Where have you been? 'Bird's-nesting in the woods, and I have got a honey-buzzard's nest two lovely eggs, worth ten shillings apiece the nest is built on the top of a crow's nest, don't you know.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - The Golden Calf