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they settled down for their night’s rest (or, 
if hungry, for their nocturnal feast, on worms 
and grubs that leave their runs at night). 
And jackdaws on the grass were busy with 
their evening meal and talk. 
AF 
XLIII: NEST OF LAPWING (PEEWIT) (4-SiZe). 
Earlier in the year,in April, I had secured 
a photo of a peewit’s nest. It was merely 
a slight hollow scratched in the ground, 
under a tuft of grass. The birds showed all 
the cleverness, for which they are so famed, 
