. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 310 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. THE AMERICAN HERRING GULL There is an interesting colony of American Herring Gulls on a small island on the southern coast of Nova Scotia, known as Seal Isand. They are quite plentiful here in the breeding season, coming about the middle of March and remaining until October or November. A few of the young spend the winter here. They are a very dark brownish gray, slightly marked or mottled with light. The third year they have the plumage of an adult. Here their nests are mostly in trees but a few build on the ground. When
. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 310 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. THE AMERICAN HERRING GULL There is an interesting colony of American Herring Gulls on a small island on the southern coast of Nova Scotia, known as Seal Isand. They are quite plentiful here in the breeding season, coming about the middle of March and remaining until October or November. A few of the young spend the winter here. They are a very dark brownish gray, slightly marked or mottled with light. The third year they have the plumage of an adult. Here their nests are mostly in trees but a few build on the ground. When in these the nests are more stoutly constructed than when on the ground. The nest in the picture was built of grass and sticks and was taken on a cloudy day with two seconds exposure. One day in June I determined to get a pictureof a Gull on her nest, so set out armed with camera and string. I selected a suitable nest, focussed on it and covered my camera with moss and sticks. Then making my string fast to the shutter I concealed myself under some. Photo by Bernice Crowell. GULL SITTING ON Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Worcester, Mass. : C. K. Reed
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