Here, too, the Burrows had probably existed first and had attracted the wheatears, and the birds had brought the seed from some distant bush.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Five years before, the rabbits, finding it a suitable spot to dig in, probably because of a softer chalk there, made a number of deep Burrows at that spot.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
When the wheatears, or "horse-maggers" as he called them, returned in spring two or three pairs attached themselves to this group of Burrows and bred in them.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson