. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . n,but this notwithstanding, the young were just hatchingout. I was unable to look right into the nest, but witha stick could feel the soft bodies of the chicks and theremaining eggs. One would have imagined that the parentbirds would have displayed great anxiety at such a time,but they appeared singularly indifferent, and did not ap-proach anywhere near when I was at the nest. I noticed onebird apparently feeding the other on a knoll a few hundredyards away. That evening I visited a dippers nest built in a nicheo
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . n,but this notwithstanding, the young were just hatchingout. I was unable to look right into the nest, but witha stick could feel the soft bodies of the chicks and theremaining eggs. One would have imagined that the parentbirds would have displayed great anxiety at such a time,but they appeared singularly indifferent, and did not ap-proach anywhere near when I was at the nest. I noticed onebird apparently feeding the other on a knoll a few hundredyards away. That evening I visited a dippers nest built in a nicheof rock above a waterfall. The nest was fully built, but Icould not tell whether the bird was sitting, as it wasimpossible to approach the nest itself. On the third, the fine weather continuing, I crossed toone of the islands, and for the first time this year saw numbersof Manx shearw^aters gliding wnth picturesque flight abovethe surface of the sea. No puffins, apparently, had arrivedas yet, but the common gulls were everywhere, and the greenplover were commencing to nest. i86. YOUNG GOLDEN EAGLE IN THE EYRIE. The Hindquarters of a Hare lie in the Foreground.
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