. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . rsh andangry protests from tliousands of indignant birds. Circling 22 338 Pictures of Bird Life Redshanks, with their Tip-tip. the Avocets AMiit-whit-whitter-whitter-whitter, and tlie Kree-ee of thou-sands of Terns gyrating unceasingly overliead, would makeanybody think that the whole marsh was full of theireggs. But not a bit of it ; there was hardly an egg tobe seen. A few Redshanks nests held one and two eggs,and the others were almost without exception empty. INIany Dunlinsin pairs ranabout in theirusual tame andfamiliar ma
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . rsh andangry protests from tliousands of indignant birds. Circling 22 338 Pictures of Bird Life Redshanks, with their Tip-tip. the Avocets AMiit-whit-whitter-whitter-whitter, and tlie Kree-ee of thou-sands of Terns gyrating unceasingly overliead, would makeanybody think that the whole marsh was full of theireggs. But not a bit of it ; there was hardly an egg tobe seen. A few Redshanks nests held one and two eggs,and the others were almost without exception empty. INIany Dunlinsin pairs ranabout in theirusual tame andfamiliar man-ner only a fewyards away,but had noteven tlien begun to we foimdnumbers ofnests likeRedshanks, eacli in a small tuft of grass, only very nuiclismaller; but they had not begun to lay wlicn we AVagtails were also numerous, and tliey alsohad apparently not begun to nest. The walking was bad—soft and slippery mud, brightyellow in colour from the iron, I believe, wlien undis-turbed, but black as ink when trodden on. The whole. Nest ok Pintail (/Jti/i/n ai/i/n > Bird Life in Denmark—On the Fjord 339 marsh was intersected with creeks, some shallow, otliersmuch deeper, all of wliich had to be waded; so tliat bydegrees we t^ot wetter and wetter. ^^c had startedcarryiiio- a pair of wadiiio-trousers ; })ut between two ofus it would have taken a week to have crossed tliat
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