Show nests prove birds to be master architects the word nest Is pretty of itself find expressive of nil all homeliness in the kingdom of the birds wiltes walte 3 17 R raynor in tile the london dally daily tole tele graph there ore are homes which tire are masterpieces of instinctive ture all arlod earled in design but each one hullt built to serve the pent great purpose of home and faintly the hie ft agile ile rod ami intelligent builders told no bodkin to insert no thread to hind bind a little beak was ag it nil long tilled tailed tits those animated ir ar rows that lit flit about the woodland work prodigiously day by day to pro duce tint that amazing hill of moss fine grasses lichens and feathers avigil its side aldo entrance high bight in tile the hedgerow it Is recorded that 2370 feitli ers era were counted as part of the structure of one nest while these and other birds of branch and bed hedgerow gerow are carrying carril ng materials the woodpecker flood perseveres with the loud tar tap tap of hir powerful bill on the defective tree trunk chipping out a home for ills his family depp deep in the heart of the tree arm the swallow with tireless energy devotes nil all its ills mornings to mixing and adding clay which shall hind itself to the wall iyall and which will bake dry in the sun still uie the swallows nest Is like half balf a shallow sli allow dish with the top ahn aldays ay s open to the air just under the enes eaves high on the rocks above the afef wavea of at the sen sea the guillemot Rull lemot places tier her single pear shaped egg on a narrow lodge ledge A layer of seaweed holds it and when the stormy winds do blow this egg rolls round rind and round on its nils axis seldom falling failing over oer the edge by take lake and pond the grebes brebes and coots make sound foundations of dried rushes for their floating home spends on the fillow fallow field the lapwing excavates the slightest holl hollow ow for her four dark mottled eggs egg these set with points to the center cannot roll or move |