366 Pictures of Bird Life 



})ieturesque spots to be found in Britain, being restricted 

 as tliey entirely are to the wild rocky glens and dales 

 of Devonshire, Derbyshire, AVales, Yorkshire, and the Xorth. 

 In such places the Dipper is a resident, living amid the 

 swirl and dash of the rinming stream and the spray of the 

 waterfall, in company witli the Sandpiper and the Kingfisher. 



Bridges possess a great attraction for the Dipper, and 

 I was shown one nest among the iron girders which 

 supported a small roadside bridge, close to the ^'illage. 

 Overhanging banks and amid the roots of trees are also 

 probable sites for their nests. 



While I was engaged in photographing one nest on an 

 old tree-stump overhanging a small islet, just below the 

 junction of the Dove and the Manifold, my friend was 

 seated on the bank watching with his Goerz prismatic 

 glass a Sandpiper, which was calling on the farther bank 

 bet^^'ecn sixty and a hundred yards away. It says a good 

 deal for the power of this glass tliat he was able, at such 

 a distance, to watch such a slender form as a crouching 

 Sandpiper creep through the long grass and finally settle 

 on her nest. AValking round to the nearest bridge a quarter 

 of a mile downstream, we came back up the opposite bank 

 and went right to the nest, from wliich the bird Hew. It 

 contained three young birds and an egg on the point of 

 hatchin"-. 



Another bird which haunts these rocky streams is the 

 Grey AVagtail, the most elegant, perhaps, of a particularly 

 elegant family. It may be distinguished from the other 



