Identifier: birdhomesnestseg00dugm_0 (find matches)
Title: Bird homes : the nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States; with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dugmore, Arthur Radclyffe, 1870-1955
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: York University - University of Toronto Libraries

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ost cases the bird will lay the com-plete complement. Care should be taken not to disturb the nest or frighten thebirds. In this way 1 have seen as many as six eggs taken from asingle nest, and four more were afterwards laid and hatched. Some birds are exceedingly shy and will desert their nestsupon small provocation, especially if they are disturbed whilebuilding. Others, however, such as the golden-winged wood-pecker and crested flycatcher, are difficult to drive away. When eggs vary in size, shape, or colour, as those of most ofthe sparrows, the bobolink, and many others, it is an advantageto procure a fairly large number or series of sets, showing asmany of the differences as possible ; this adds greatly to the interestof a collection, particularly when the difference correlates withlocality and varied conditions. A well-arranged collection of birdsnests, even without the eggs, is both picturesque and valuable.They should as far as possible be left as the bird had placed them ; i8
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Egg-Collecting and Its Object if built in a bush or on a branch, enough of the support ought toremain with the nest to show by what method it was secured.With ground nests that are placed in tufts of grass, the tuft shouldbe removed with the nest ; in the case of woodcock, ruffed grouse,or any bird that forms its nest roughly of leaves, a wire hoopcovered loosely with muslin or wire gauze will answer the pur-pose ; this can be slipped under the nest so that it need not bedisturbed. When the eggs are laid in a hole in a tree it is not alwaysfeasible to cut down the tree or even the branch. Sometimes thebranch can be cut just below the nest (taking care not to cutthrough the lower part of the nest itself), and then an opening canbe made in order to show the eggs and whatever there may bein the way of a nest, leaving the original hole through which thebird had entered. If the nest is taken before the eggs are laid, oreven when the bird has commenced sitting, during the early partof the s

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