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Updated: May 26, 2025
A favourite climbing tree The desire to fly Soaring birds A peregrine falcon The dovecote and pigeon-pies The falcon's depredations A splendid aerial feat A secret enemy of the dovecote A short-eared owl in a loft My father and birds A strange flower The owls' nesting-place Great owl visitations.
In his choice of a nesting-place he seems at first sight to show less than his usual caution; for, though the nest is a very conspicuous one, it is generally made in a pine sapling not far from the ground, and often on a path or other opening in the woods. But perhaps, in the somewhat remote situations where he builds, the danger is less from below than from birds of prey sailing overhead.
The hen-pheasant was a solitary bird, having strayed away from the pheasant copses near the Itchen and found a nesting-place a mile away, on the other side of the valley, among the tall grasses and sedges on its border. I was the bird's only human neighbour, as I was staying in a fishing-cottage near the spot where the bird had its nest.
His brother, who had been trying to make a conversation with Reggie, while Tricksy sat shyly on his other side, looked up with a smile. 'The steamer went close under some fine rocks, not far from the village, he said; 'very high ones, with birds sitting in rows, all the way up, and making an awful screaming. 'Yes, said Allan, 'those are the Skegness Cliffs, a great nesting-place of the birds.
Aleck needed no further orders, and hurried out into the well-kept garden, where everything looked healthy and flourishing, sheltered as it was from the fierce winds of all quarters by the fact that it lay in a depression formed by the sinking of some two or three acres of land, possibly from the undermining of the sea in far distant ages, at the end of a narrow rift or chasm in the cliffs which guarded the shores, the result being that, save in one spot nearest the sea, the grounds possessed a natural cliff-like wall some fifty or sixty feet high, full of rift and shelf, the nesting-place of innumerable birds.
But 'tis hinted at headquarters that you are but a fair-weather royalist at best nay, that for some years back you have been as rebel as the rest in this nesting-place of traitors. As a friend mind you, as a friend I would advise you to find the wherewithal to carry out my Lord's commands. Do you take me, Mr. Stair?"
They are all hung with Spanish moss, a feature which conflicts with the impression of lack of moisture conveyed by the light ashen color of the bark and short annual growth of many of the smaller trees. Here and there tiny inlets are overhung with undergrowth which supplies a safe nesting-place to a multitude of birds of many kinds.
I remember seeing a mass of clay which had been formed into a wasp's nest by one of the solitary species, under the flap of a pembroke table in an unused room. A maid in dusting lifted up the flap, and down fell a quantity of fine, dry mud with young grubs in it which would soon have hatched into wasps, and revealed their rather strange nesting-place.
Kiddie had told him exactly where the eagles' eyrie was situated and how he might most easily and safely approach it, first by ascending the gradual slope of the mountain and then working his way round on the face of the precipice, and then again ascending by a craggy cleft that would bring him close to the nesting-place. And Kiddie's directions and advice were always too practical to be ignored.
It then occurred to me that in every case where I had observed a clump of elder bushes on the bare downside, it grew upon a village or collection of rabbit burrows, and it is probable that in every case the clump owed its existence to the wheatears who had dropped the seed about their nesting-place.
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