OWL’S NESTS
(By Alfred Dick, Kimbell)
[A book prize is awarded for this nature note.] ■ While my brother and I were rabbiting one Saturday we noticed an owl perched on a branch of .a fuchsia tree at the head of a small gully. We watched it for a while until it flew away to a dead totara tree. On the fuchsia we noticecUa gmnll hole about four feet from the ground. Climbing up I saw four small chicks With large eyes and small hooked bills. Their' soft feathers were speckled with white and light brown. When they noticed me, they opened their bills , and screeched at me until I went away.* Just as I touched the ground, I noticed two owls flying towards me. One was carrying a mouse in its strong claws. ■ Half an hour later we put our. ferret in a hole in the side of tne bank. Our ferret pulled out a huge oWI by the head. Digging out the hole we found a nest of grass lined with rabbit, fur. In the nest were four small eggs about the-size of, a t small bantam egg. • The oWI Was brown and white in colour. We let her go but she would not go back to the eggs. ’
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22767, 20 July 1939, Page 5 (Supplement)
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