Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches)
Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lodge, R. B
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Sedge-warbler feeding Young (AcrocepJia/iis (>liyagmtiis). in the cemetery there any day througlunit the sunnner,and I feel sure that they nest in the long grass at thesides of the graves. The birds themselves are fond ofsitting on the gra^-estones. This cemetery is quite afa\()urite resort for birds : the following species breedingthere to my knowledge — Lark, ^leadow-pipit, Hlackbird,Thrush, Partridge, Red-legged Paitridge. Carrion - crow,jNIartin, Swallow, Hedge-sparrow, and Cuckoo. 5
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.Seuok-waki.i 1 K (Airoccpliahts pltrai;iintis) and Nest. Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 67 TiRWliiiKliat,oil tlic coiitnirv,is ex(ce(liiii>lyahutulnnt intact,- jnst after leavin- the nest isJust like •• Eoypt-Eoypt. Their nest is one of the mostdiffieult to find, so well hidden is it amono- the lon^ ^rass.It is generally, or at all e^ents very often, placed at tliefoot of some little saplin- or upright plant, which servesas a ))ercli for tlie birds. One pair, which had a nest of youn<)^ underneath afallen branch, always perched on one end of it every time

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