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the fishermen tried to disengage it, some of its 

 claws came off. 



Whilst spending a week 

 end on the Norfolk Broads 

 last spring we made a 

 great effort to secure 

 a photograph of a 

 bearded tit, or reed 

 pheasant, feeding 

 its young, but 

 unfortunately 

 for us, we 

 failed to 



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find a 

 single nest 

 with a 

 brood still re- 

 maining in it. 

 I did, however, 

 discoverfrom ahouse- 

 top a pair of adult 

 birds entering an d leaving 

 a particular reed-bed with 

 suspicious regularity, and got 

 our boatman to punt us round 

 to the place. When we reached 

 it we found three very juvenile tits 

 hopping about amongst the reeds. I 

 dashed out of the boat after them on to 

 a little floating island of tangled aquatic vegetation, 



