bird-nesting


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bird-nesting

or

birds'-nesting

n
searching for birds' nests as a hobby, often to steal the eggs
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He himself had played football and gone bird-nesting with the farmers whom he met at vestry and the labourers who tilled their fields, and so had his father and grandfather, with their progenitors.
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"Continually hiding behind the bird-nesting season, which lasts for seven months of the year, to me, is an excuse and panacea for doing nothing."
Let there be light; Council finally cut back 42ft tree after 18-month battle with frustrated homeowner

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