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Foreign News
March 23, 1866
The Vermont Transcript
Saint Albans, Franklin County, Vermont
What is this article about?
A workman in Banffshire, Scotland, uncovered a weasel's nest containing a field mouse, a decapitated blackbird, twenty-five small birds, and lined with feathers from destroyed birds.
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A Banffshire (Scotland) paper records a curious fact bearing on the habits of the weasel. A workman was ploughing a field on the Home Farm of Nethermair, and he turned up a weasel's nest with the animal in it. The nest was of comfortable build and carefully lined with feathers. In it was stowed away a field mouse, a blackbird, and twenty-five small birds. The head of the blackbird was severed from its body, but all the other birds were entire. The feathers that lined the nest seem to have been plucked from previously destroyed birds.
What sub-type of article is it?
Wildlife Observation
Natural History
What keywords are associated?
Weasel Nest
Banffshire Scotland
Animal Habits
Nethermair Farm
Bird Prey
Where did it happen?
Banffshire (Scotland)
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Banffshire (Scotland)
Event Details
A workman was ploughing a field on the Home Farm of Nethermair and turned up a weasel's nest with the animal in it. The nest was comfortably built and lined with feathers. It contained a field mouse, a blackbird with its head severed, and twenty-five small birds entire. The feathers were plucked from previously destroyed birds.