FRIENDS IN FEATHERS 



NEST AND EGGS OF SHRIKE 



big head with a rumble like distant thunder, he came my way 

 threateningly, so I had to gather my paraphernalia and hastily 

 retreat. In the fourth field under the protecting leaf of a thistle 

 growing near the oats, a Chewink fed four babies, not a stone's 

 throw from the rabbit's burrow in the adjoining field. 



At the central corner of these four fields grew the little scrub 

 apple-tree in which the Shrikes located, probably because of the 

 myriads of grasshoppers and insects within one sweep of flight, 



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