WHAT I HAVE DONE WITH BIRDS 



NEST AND EGGS OF SHRIKE 



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

 threateningly, and I had to gather my paraphernalia and beat a 

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

 thistle growing near the oats, a Chewink fed four babies, not a 

 stone's throw from the rabbits' 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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