Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 



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due scusou. If it takes ti few stru\v})eiTics wlieii tliey are 

 ripe, surely it lias fully earned them by kee})iiig the 

 beds elear of sluos and eaterpillars and other insect pests 

 throughout the year. Too many of us accept their services, 

 and enjoy their ])resence and sweet minstrelsy, but grudge 

 them their fair share of the produce they June helped to 



Hen Blackcap {Sylvia atiicapilld) <'\ Ni-i. 



raise. It would be just as reasonable to expect the gardener 

 to work without wages. 



Though a resident with us throughout the year, the 

 Thrush appears to be subject to migratory impulses from 

 one part of tlie country to another, and innnense numbers 

 cross the sea. 



The Redwing- and the Fieldfare are only winter visitors, 

 arriving regularly every autumn from their Scandinavian 



