Hedgerow Life 
Here, you see, is an interesting thing 
to know almost before we have begun to 
study our hedgerow at all. And if this 
one fact makes you want to know all 
about the thousands of other similar 
contrivances to be found in flowers and 
plants alone, you are at once provided 
with enough study for a lifetime; and a 
study of which you will never tire or 
grow weary all the days of your life. 
Now let us look for nests—birds’ 
nests. Of course, it is the wrong time of 
the year to find any eggs, and the birds 
which build the nests are some of them 
thousands of miles away. But all the 
same the nests will be there, and will be 
more easily seen than when the leaves 
are green and full, and cover the hedges 
with their shade. And we shall know 
better where to look later on. Perhaps 
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