STRANGE NESTING PLACES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6490, 15 December 1881, Page 6

STRANGE NESTING PLACES.

Zb oraoeetkß with this aubjeet (uni writer In Xond tad Water), I offer a/ mb* trtbutlcn rotating to wtot toe mm under air node*. Of dittoMrdelknow tto rod-broaet if tto maid eccentric la tto way of seating. 0«fr»l year* mo £ know of • redbroaeft neet being toilt la an Iron pot which tod tots cutaway in a robbieb toap. Another vu built ia on* of Ito ileereeof a woodman’# coat, which tod tors hung upon atm bote few bouit before and on tto s«fl being die* oorered tto kind-hearted foreeter allowed bl« rout to remain on tto branch of tto tr«o until tto red-breacte tod reared their femUy. I tore known Ihle bird rater a cottage to a broken window-pane, rad build to neat k a cupboard. and aleo ia mill* witblo a few kchee of storing machinery} but Ito moat oaiioua place I erer kttaw of 000 of tto red' breaef* building in waa ioaid# a butaae ecull, wbleb had bran left abort pound is a now cloaad'Up burykg-ground at Dyrart, k Fife, and nearly oppose tto ratranoe'pte of the maoaion bouee of tto Bight Bra tto tori of Boeelyn* £ hare knows a blackbird build to neat keidt tto woodan apoot of a woodra tmatn. She oieyele partieulaify partial to building for auooeedve yaara in tto tame plant i and an old gentleman of toy acq uaint' aoca diecorerkg that out of theae bird* had regularly for aeaaona built in an old well of hia property, whioh to tod roaaon to to taken down and rebuilt, cauacd a quart bottle, minua the bottom, to to tout in the new wall for hia little favourite. The bird, with an inatioot worth recording, took to to gleet abode and reared to brood for year* therein. Not long ago % ataman named George Kelly, while preparing to lover Ito topaaU of the •chooser Mary Grace, which wae about to •ail from Oaetletown (ule of Man) to White, haren, wae curprieed to And aeparrow’e seel containing four »ggs, neatly built in the felda of the call, which had remained furled eince the roieel arrived there about few weeks eince.