Secrets Of Nature - Orphans Of The Woods (1932)

Produced by British Instructional Films. Distributed by Wardour Films Ltd. Various types of pheasant including Reeve’s Pheasant and Silver Pheasant. The forest. We see how pheasant hide in the undergrowth. Hen pheasant makes nest on the ground. Nest full of eggs. Pheasant is well camouflaged and “only the winking of her eye reveals her whereabouts“. Eggs hatch and baby pheasants leave the nest. Keeper on watch for predators. Stoat at the nest (probably a stuffed one posed there!) The keeper shoots a large gun then goes and picks up the stoat (it is pretty rigid!) He hangs the dead stoat on a fence next to three others. The Jay, the fox and the owl are all “egg suckers“. Keeper takes eggs from a nest and puts them into his “capacious keeper’s pocket.“ He then pus the eggs into a pail. Shire horses pull a cart laden with hen coops. The coops are placed in position shaded from the wind by trees. Also protected from foxes by wire. 13 eggs are placed in each nest. Farmyard hen is entrusted