Secrets Of Nature - The Merlin (1930)

A Pro Patria Films Ltd presentation produced by British Instructional Films Ltd. Central Wales landscape. Sheep run on the hills. Motorcycle speeding up a rough road on a mountain. Tow people walking through the heather. They are bird watchers and find a good spot to hide whilst they look through their binoculars at the bird life. They spot a pair of Merlins and decide to look for their nest. C/U of four eggs in a nest. They build a hide from pieces of wood and canvas in which the cameraman could film the birds. They cover the hide with heather and the cameraman gets in. This will be his home during the daylight hours for the next month. He takes into the hide some refreshment - a china jug of the sort which usually contains scrumpy with XXX painted on the side (but not before one of the hide builders has a swig). C/U of the nest, one of the Merlins has hatched. Shots of the mother feeding the babies a small bird. Shot of the “plucking ground“ several miles away. The mother bird reacts