Identifier: wildnaturesways00kear (find matches)
Title: Wild nature's ways
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds Insects Natural history
Publisher: London, Paris, New York Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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SHORT-EARED OWLS NEST. eggs, the remaining three members of thefamily were like those in the nest, of vary-ing sizes, and scattered about in the sur-rounding heather at distances of from fifteento fifty yards from their old home. The short-tailed field vole shown in our illustration had
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io6 WILD NATURES WAYS. evidently only just been caught, because it wasquite warm. The bold little twite is a bird of the heatherand brae side, but at the same time very partialto shrubs growing in Highland gardens for nestingpurposes. Whilst in Scotland on one occasion,a lady friend showed me a nest belonging to thisspecies in an ivy geranium trained against theinside back wall of a lean-to greenhouse. Theparent birds were busy feeding a family of chicks,and found their way in and out of the buildingthrough a broken pane in the glass roof. I found two more nests belonging to membersof the species in the garden. One was in a stuntedgooseberry bush, and the other in a stragglingyoung honeysuckle plant tied back to the stonewall surrounding the enclosure, and close by themuch-used doorway, giving entrance to it. Thislatter specimen I kept under daily observationfor more than a fortnight. On the 14th of June it contained the firstof six eggs, and on the 19th the last. When Ipaid my mornin

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