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male saw him and both left. Then discovered 

 a nest high up in a fir tree from which the male 

 had moved, which will no doubt be the nest 

 that will be used. 



June 5' E.H.C. put the female Spairow Hawk off the 

 assumed nest. 



June 25 We examined the Sparrow Hawk's nest to find 

 the young had already begun to " hunch " 

 themselves in the nest, and shew quills. We 

 decided that if anything was to be done it 

 would have to be done quickly. 



Dr. Penrose, after carefully considering the 

 situation in the light of his own experience as 

 a bird photographer, decided that the situation 

 was an impossible one to tackle by leaving the 

 nest where it was. No near trees presented 

 any facility for the erection of a hide of any 

 kind, labour and material prohibited erecting 

 a scaffolding; and the actual nest was so severely 

 shaded from the necessary photographic light 

 by neighbouring taller fir trees that moving 

 the tree, or the nest, was the only possible 

 method. The whole tree seemed too big a 

 task, as it was 40 feet and upwards high, and 

 the nest 27 feet from the ground. We were 

 reluctant to interfere with the nest itself, so 

 that the only other thing to do was to cut the 

 head off the tree and take it down and plant 

 the truncated top elsewhere. This we finally 

 did. Just how it was done is a most interesting 

 story ; but as it is a long one and would need 

 diagrams to make it understandable, I fear that 

 I cannot set it out at length here, or the chief 

 editor and publication committee will call me 

 over the coals. However, a conference with 

 Mr. T. J. Meaby, the Canford Estate Agent, 

 to whom we applied for permission to carry 



