Hedgerow Life 
to be seen in every direction," 1One 
wonders where they can all come from. 
You can hear their notes in great variety ; 
the great tit, in particular, seems to have 
a fresh note every week. Early in the 
year he asks you in the plainest manner, 
‘Did-you? Did-you?’ In the spring- 
time, if 1 hear a bird's note 1 done 
recognize, I generally put it down to a 
great tit or a starling, and mostly find it 
is one of the two. For the starling, not 
content with its own queer jabber, 
imitates the notes of all the birds around 
and mixes them up in the most. puzzling 
fashion. On any warm day in winter 
and carly spring it likes to sit in the sun 
and talk to itself, clapping its beak and 
fluffing out the pointed glossy feathers on 
its neck as it does so. The blue tit also 
has a special spring note, very different 
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