The hedger’s work reveals last spring's nests: Country diary, 17 February 1921

17 February 1921 One was a chaffinch’s set well up in the arm of a blackthorn, the foundation laid cunningly in a niche The hedger has finished his work before nesting days; his heavy steel bill cleared out spaces here and there where a nest of last spring showed almost as sound as when it was built. One was a chaffinch’s set well up in the arm of a blackthorn that had not been cut back for some years. The foundation was laid cunningly in a niche where the crook of other branches str