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had seen the bird sitting on the eggs in 

 this nest just eight weeks previously ! 

 When we found the nest it was the 

 second week in June, so the bird must 

 have been sitting on those eggs since 

 April, and although she had been on for 

 so long, very little material could have 

 been added during incubation, for it 

 was one of the very poorest Buzzard's 

 nests I have seen. 



As a contrast to this, I know a nest 

 in a wood which is such an enormous 

 structure that it is quite a landmark 

 when the trees are bare of leaves. This 

 nest has been there for ten years to my 

 knowledge, but being in such a prominent 

 position has often been robbed. When 

 I climbed up to it, I found it to be about 

 three feet in depth, and about the same 

 distance across. It is rather difficult to 

 give exact measurements of such a nest, 

 for some of the small branches used 

 stick out considerably farther than the 



