Hedgerow Life 
cry of the cuckoo and the ‘jug-jug’ of 
the nightingale. And hosts of less 
conspicuous birds throng the bushes: 
whitethroats and_ garden - warblers, 
blackcaps, whinchats,. butcher - birds, 
wrynecks, and all the rest of them. The 
hawthorn is covered with may-blossom, 
and the cow-parsley and the taller 
flowering grasses of the meadows grow 
right up to the hedge and mingle with 
the lower branches and the tangled mass 
of bramble and nettle. This is the place 
in which we may expect to find the 
roughly woven nest of the whitethroat 
—the ‘nettle-creeper,’ as the boys call 
it; and right on the ground among the 
nettles and bramble-stalks we may find 
the nightingale’s nest, with its five 
polished brown eggs. 
Talking of the butcher-bird leads me 
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