FOURTH SEASON (1921): RECORD 137 
This, of course, created an uncertainty as to which 
pair the Cuckoo would victimise to-day, and at 
the same time it explained the Cuckoo’s harassed 
visit thereabouts two days ago. We placed Miss 
Turner’s hide opposite to nest 5 3 . 
At 1 p.m. the Cuckoo, sitting in tree H 1 , was 
gazing towards the nest of No. 6 pair, and was still 
doing so at 1.30 when Simmonds and I sat down 
by it in the hope of discouraging her and forcing 
her to No. 5, for it is obviously a disadvantage, 
with a shortage of nests, to have the Cuckoo laying 
in a nest containing only one egg and ignoring a 
nest which already contained four. 
Things seemed to be going the way we wanted 
when at 2.1 p.m. the Cuckoo glided from her tree 
and settled beside the nest of No. 5. She was on 
the ground for sixty seconds. Miss Turner ob- 
tained two photographs (p. 136) and would have 
taken a third but for the fact that when the Cuckoo 
was just entering the nest the Pipit, brooding her 
eggs, buzzed out in such a way as to startle the 
Cuckoo, a trick this particular Pipit was rather 
fond of ! She returned to her tree, and at 2.5 
again floated to the nest, but the Pipit darted up at 
her, and the Cuckoo returned whence she came. 
Then she transferred her attentions to No. 6 
