. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . our eggs. Evidently these musthave been a second laying, unless another pair of heronswere tenanting the nest. Another interesting case was anest which contained two small young on April 20 and whichnow held two newly-hatched young and one tgg. Youngherons remain long in the nest, and I doubt whether duringthese eight weeks the first brood could have been reared,the nest repaired, and a second clutch laid and hatched seems more probable that some mischance befell the firstfamily, and the parent bird laid a
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . our eggs. Evidently these musthave been a second laying, unless another pair of heronswere tenanting the nest. Another interesting case was anest which contained two small young on April 20 and whichnow held two newly-hatched young and one tgg. Youngherons remain long in the nest, and I doubt whether duringthese eight weeks the first brood could have been reared,the nest repaired, and a second clutch laid and hatched seems more probable that some mischance befell the firstfamily, and the parent bird laid a second clutch of eggs inthe same nest. In another season the Glen of the Herons was visitedon July 7—a day when the mists hung low on the hills andwhen the south-west wind brought with it soft drivingrain from off the Atlantic. On this occasion one nestcontained two young, about a fortnight old, and, pressingclose to them for their warmth, a tiny newly hatchedchick. In another nest were two eggs and a new-hatchedyoung one, while two other nests had large feathered young. 74. THE HERONS Six Nests in the Same Tree
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