. British birds. Birds. nOTES SOME ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM SHETLAND. The following facts about birds in Shetland may be of interest to readers of British Birds. The old gardener at Hayfield, Lerwick, states that Black- birds {Tvirdus m. mernla) first nested in Shetland about 1891 or 1892, and they have nested in this garden ever since. I believe they are fairly common in many parts of Shetland. A Song-Thrush {T. philomelus ? subsp.) nested in the garden of Dr. Munro at Kergord, Weisdale, this year (1919), and hatched out two young ones from the nest of five eggs. Dr. Munro says that a pair w
. British birds. Birds. nOTES SOME ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM SHETLAND. The following facts about birds in Shetland may be of interest to readers of British Birds. The old gardener at Hayfield, Lerwick, states that Black- birds {Tvirdus m. mernla) first nested in Shetland about 1891 or 1892, and they have nested in this garden ever since. I believe they are fairly common in many parts of Shetland. A Song-Thrush {T. philomelus ? subsp.) nested in the garden of Dr. Munro at Kergord, Weisdale, this year (1919), and hatched out two young ones from the nest of five eggs. Dr. Munro says that a pair were seen last summer (1918) there but he does not think any young were hatched, though he was away at the time. As he is trying hard, and with some success, to raise trees in Shetland, perhaps this may have attracted them. In 1918, late in the season, I saw three young Gannets {Sula hassana) on the cliffs of Noss, and this year took particular notice to see if the birds had built again, as Gannets are not very common in Shetland, and I do not think they usually have built here. This year in the same spot there are five pairs nesting. On the Island of Mousa I found an Eider Duck {Somateria m. mollissima) on its nest, built on the top of a rough wall about fi ve feet from the ground. These walls are very irregular and there was a large sharp stone between the two eggs in the nest. The bird had evidently tried to get the two eggs together and failed, as both eggs were much cracked. The Fulmar Petrels {Fulmarus g. glacialis) now appear to build on every cliff round the Shetlands, and so many nest here now that some are forced to build in places which can easily be reached by human hands. The Richardson's Skuas (Stercorarius parasiticus) are also very numerous and the Great Skuas (S. s. skua) are now quite common. These latter build to my certain knowledge on Hermaness, Nos?, Fetlar, Hascosay, and Foula. I believe they will be found at two or three other places also, but I have not
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