182 BIRD LIFE IN WILD WALES 



ing Wagtails about ; and one pair had young, I 

 know, but we could not find it. All these things 

 Pike pictured, as well as a Coot's and Moorhen's 

 on the lake. 



June \st. A pair of Nuthatches have occupied 

 the cleft in the ash-tree where the Redstarts were 

 nesting : I say " were " because they were robbed by 

 some farm children. We started operations by photo- 

 graphing this Nuthatch's nest, and then the Gold- 

 crest's in my garden. Journeying riverwards, we 

 depicted a Long-tailed Tit's home, as well as a 

 Marsh Tit's. 



After this we walked along the line, photographing 

 on the way the Tree Pipit's nest in the embankment, 

 which now contains six eggs. The following pictures 

 were also made : Bullfinch's, Greenfinch's, Redstart's, 

 Creeper's, Spotted Flycatcher's, and Wren's nests. 

 The first two were in box-bushes in the churchyard ; 

 the Redstart's under the slates of an outhouse ; the 

 Creeper's in the cleft of a pollard willow under a 

 piece of peeled bark ; the Flycatcher's in the cavity 

 of a wall ; whilst the Wren's was in a bundle of 

 dried sticks. 



June 2nd. To L. wood, to depict the Heronry 

 there, photoing en route a Meadow Pipit's home with 

 five eggs. Found a Tree Pipit's with a brace of the olive 

 typed eggs. We now reached the archway under the 

 line, where the Dipper and Grey Wagtails are. The 

 former we found was sitting on four eggs, and the 

 latter on five. This is the Dipper's third attempt, 

 for the second clutch of eggs was taken, and the 

 Wagtail's second. They were both difficult nests to 



