. Wanderings of a naturalist . A Shag with her Full-grown Golden Plover : A cautious Approach to Her the bog cotton grass flowering round the nesting-site. CHAPTER VI THE GOLDEN PLOVER THE tides of February are come, bringing with them thebreath of spring in the air. What little breeze there isblows softly from the south. The North Sea is calm andblue, and the swell breaks lazily on the long golden few miles out to sea lie the Fame Islands, each isletstanding out clear in the sunlight. A little to the north ofthe main group is the bare rock known as the Megstone,where
. Wanderings of a naturalist . A Shag with her Full-grown Golden Plover : A cautious Approach to Her the bog cotton grass flowering round the nesting-site. CHAPTER VI THE GOLDEN PLOVER THE tides of February are come, bringing with them thebreath of spring in the air. What little breeze there isblows softly from the south. The North Sea is calm andblue, and the swell breaks lazily on the long golden few miles out to sea lie the Fame Islands, each isletstanding out clear in the sunlight. A little to the north ofthe main group is the bare rock known as the Megstone,where many cormorants nest. Through the glass they canbe seen perched about the rock, their thoughts evidentlyturning, this fine day, to family matters. Southard lie theLongstone, with its lighthouse; the Brownsman, the hauntof countless gulls and puffins throughout the summer; theWamses, the home of the tribe of the sea swallows; andmany other outlying rocks and islets. To the south of themall the long black rock known as the Crumstone just tops thewater at the ful
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