Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches)
Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lodge, R. B
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rds do when any one approaches them—they may be seento be most brilliantly coloured and spotted,—far more sothan any other ^\\t\\ which I am acquainted. The parent-birds, after the young are hatched, areparticularly bold and tame, taking very little notice ofanybody watching them. It was, in fact, a matter of somedifficulty to keep them off the nest when I wanted to photo-graph them on tlie surrounding reeds. Though standingbut a yard or two away, I ha^•e had to quite drive themout of it. Nearly the whole of one day was spent squatting in thesame clump of sedge in which was a nest of six eggs.Here most of the sitting was done by the cock. It wasmost interesting to watch these charming little birds huntinground a small reed-encircled pool for insects, and to seetheir graceful postures and elegant nlo^ements. Theircoloration matches admirably the localities in which theydelight, and in which alone they are to be seen. Themusical note, Ching-ching, just like a sharply struck banjo-
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21() Pictures of Bird Life string, is (jiiite unique and characteristic, and, once heard,can never be mistaken. Tlie eggs are very faintly streakedwith fine Hues instead of spots, and are thus different inappearance from the eggs of tlie other Tits. These birds have suffered so mucli from the marslmien, inthe interest of collectors and dealers, tliat it is to be hopedthey will be accorded a more effectual protection in thenear future, before they are quite wiped out. (I wonderhow many clutches have been taken by Joshua Xudd alone !)Tlie present laws are a complete failure, simply becausenobody takes the slightest notice of them. The area overwhich the Bearded Tit is to be foimd is so restricted thatthe species is in imminent danger of speedy extinction.The wonder is, not that there are so few left, but thatthere are any at all, considering how unmercifidly the eggsha\e been taken, and how perfectly easy it is for anybodyto shoot them. But the Harriers are in a nmch worse plight than t

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