Se : Three Feathered Mites 
best thing and tell you all about them, 
and where they are made, so that if you 
ever find one for yourself you will know 
what it is. 
The bottle-tit is generally the first. 
For in March, when the hedges are 
still bare of leaves, and the blackthorn 
bushes are just spangled with the delicate 
white star-like blossoms, and the catkins 
are still hanging their heads on the nut- 
bushes, you may perhaps find a curious 
long-shaped mossy nest, which looks 
quite white amongst the bare brown 
twigs. If you look closely at it you will 
ee find it stuck all over outside with white 
lichen and spiders’ webs. It hardly 
looks like a nest, for it is all covered up, 
and there doesn’t seem any room for a 
bird, or any opening where she could 
get in. But near the top there is a 
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