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Our Bird Friends. 



hedgerows. I used to wonder, when I was a bov 

 how the builders of these beautiful nests managed to 

 make them so wonderfully round and smooth inside. 

 I have since learnt, bv watchino- some of them at 



TllKK ririT S NEST HIDDKN I.V GRASS. 



work, that they accomplish their end by placing 

 the materials in position and then twirling round 

 and round, all the while rubbing and pressing their 

 breasts against the inside walls of the structure. 



