14 BIRD BIOGRAPHIES 



ever. Each year since I have visited the 

 Buzzard's home, sometimes many times 

 in the course of a year, and have seen 

 and studied this magnificent bird at all 

 seasons, and under all conditions, and my 

 pleasure has been greater, because through 

 all these years not a single specimen has 

 been collected to help in my research, and 

 not a single egg has been taken from the 

 scores of nests that I have visited, and 

 no birds have been disturbed, or forsaken 

 their homes through my photographic work. 

 I went to the Buzzard's home knowing 

 absolutely nothing about the bird, and 

 the observations which I have recorded 

 in this life-story of the bird have been 

 gathered at first-hand from Nature. 



It was early in the morning when I 

 landed in the Buzzard's home, and the 

 only two birds which greeted me were a 

 Missel Thrush and a Twite, which were 

 both singing to the rising sun. Later on 

 in the day we took a trap and drove for 



