MARSH TITMOUSE 



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morning at the time the camera was found to 

 have become steady, and I think that the accom- 

 panying photograph well repaid our pains. 



The Marsh-Titmouse builds in a hole in a tree, 

 very often excavating this for itself after the 



YOUNG GREAT TIT. 



manner of the Woodpeckers. These are usually 

 in pollard willows growing on the banks of a 

 stream. I know of a decayed willow stump in 

 the corner of a field where a pair of Marsh-Tit- 

 mice have built as long as I can remember, a 

 fresh hole being made nearly every year, the tree 



