234 Bfithh Bird If. 
The Nesting Hole of a Pair of Nuthatclies. 
The liole 
in which 
tlie nest is 
placed is 
only about 
1<S inches 
from the 
l)ase of the 
tree, an oak 
standing in 
a wood. 
T he e n - 
trance hole, 
p last e red 
vonnd with 
mud in the 
usual way, 
stands 
about two 
feet from 
the bottom 
of the tree. 
When the 
photograph 
was taken 
(May 23rd, 1910) the young were half fledged. The owner of the 
wood told me that the birds have used the same site for several 
years. H. L. SICH. 
Birds of a Garden : it is frequently said, and correctly 
so, that flrst impressions are usually rosy ones — most certainly 
the first impression of the bird life of my Mitcham garden have 
been very interesting ones ; during the exceedingly brief intervals 
I have l)een able to devote to observation— but, awful as it may 
sound to some, here in Suri-ey, a county in which the birds are 
protected all the year round, I fear some species will have to be 
treated as vermin, if I expect to have any fruit to gather! I only 
purpose remarking in this l>rief note that I have already observed 
being fed in the garden, broods of : Willow Wren, Chaffinches, 
