BIRDS’ NESTS IN OUR GARDEN
We had several birds’ nests in our i garden in the spring. The skylark’s : nest was in the ground, and was lined with straw. The female bird lays three j or four eggs in it. (There were three in the nest in our grounds.) After! about three weeks the chickens hatch. These little fellows have no fluff on them when first hatched but, after a! few days, grow a lot of down on their' bodies. Their bill is almost as big as: 1 the rest of them. The eggs are fawn | \yith dark spots. i The blackbird’s nest was* in the rose j bush. The eggs were blue with fawn i soots on them and there were four eggs in this particular nest. The nest was built of straw, moss and woel. The hedge-sparrow’s nest was built in an old manuka breakwind. and was made of moss, wool and hair. The tiny eggs were the blue of the sky on a fine day. We have also found a few sparrows’ nests in the higher rpacrocarpa trees. The sparrows build a nest with a hole in the side and a roof over the top. Their eggs are pale grey with brown spots.— May Davis (13 years), Pakawau.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 3
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211BIRDS’ NESTS IN OUR GARDEN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 3
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