A Well-worn Nest
A pair of blackbirds in my neighbourhood are now bringing up a third brood in the same nest. How rare it is for the same nest to be used ! I have known a pair of swallows—in the......
Fastidious Caterpillars
An oddity of natural history that is puzzling the very elect must have been noticed by most of those who have been in the country if only for a few superficial hours. Some of......
In The Garden
Many gardeners are perhaps too obedient (though some are too disobedient) to the standard theories about the prejudices of plants. If a species is described as water-loving or......
A Duel For A Box
Those of us—and we are many--who provide nesting sites for our garden birds have watched a good deal of rivalry from time to time. One of the more satisfactory of such issues......
A Bird Survey The Oxford Biologists, Who Have Done A
deal of good and ingenious work, especially in regard to the oscillations of the mammal population, are just setting forth to make a survey of the pheasant population, in......
A Lesson In Self-help
Young birds (and for the matter of that, young mice, rats, rabbits and the rest) have multiplied the population beyond calculation. There are hundreds of thousands more living......
Country Life
A Parental Cuckoo That immoral bird, the cuckoo, is very freakish in habit. I gave the other day an account of its incontinent meal of four wagtails' eggs. A stranger tale is......
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