In Brisbane, Australia, I have just acquired (thanks to the wonders of the
Internet and Amazon), a copy of the book Ford - The Men and the Machine by
Robert Lacey (Little, Brown & Co., 1986). In it the author quotes Henry For=
d
I as writing (at the age of 50) of growing up on his father's farm:
The first thing that I remember in my life is my Father taking my brother
John and myself to see a bird's nest under a large oak log twenty rods East
of our home. I remember the nest with four eggs and also the bird and
hearing it sing. I have always remembered the song, and in later years
found that it was a Song Sparrow. I remember the log layed in the field fo=
r
a good many years.
(Henry Ford's spelling)
Please excuse my antipodean ignorance, but do Song Sparrows really nest
under logs? And if not, what species' nest was it likely to have been?
TIA
Syd Curtis
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