. Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland . cormorants nesting-place [Chislebury Bay).. CHAPTER LXIV GANTS In the grey autumn mornings, as the North Sea luggersare hauling their nets, filled with blue and silvery herring,from the cold water, amid the wild laka-laka-lakas of thegulls, the craa-craa-craas of the gannet will be conspicuous—as are the birds themselves—and a welcome augury theyare to the North Sea fishermen, who read in their pre-sence herring about here ! The fishermen tell of twogants—the black and white gant — probably the im-mature and adult birds; and though they wel
. Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland . cormorants nesting-place [Chislebury Bay).. CHAPTER LXIV GANTS In the grey autumn mornings, as the North Sea luggersare hauling their nets, filled with blue and silvery herring,from the cold water, amid the wild laka-laka-lakas of thegulls, the craa-craa-craas of the gannet will be conspicuous—as are the birds themselves—and a welcome augury theyare to the North Sea fishermen, who read in their pre-sence herring about here ! The fishermen tell of twogants—the black and white gant — probably the im-mature and adult birds; and though they welcome them,still, when the nets are being drawn in, and the craainggants go in a body, some hundred yards off, to lift andstrip a full net with their powerful bills, robbing the silverybooty, they are not altogether pleased, and smile with satis-faction as some incautious youngster gets entangled in thelint, and is dragged aboard drowned. And when his catchruns to five or six lasts of fish, there will be hundredsof gants and gulls robbing him of his well-earnedharvest. And perhaps it i
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