. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . -1 i::-> 5: Bird Life in Denmark—On the Fjord :U5 Some of tlie little sandy islands in the fjord by nowbegan to luue a few eggs—Ringed l*lovers and ArcticTerns and a few Black-headed Gulls. On a long days work the question of food is a diffi-culty. With so many photographic things to carry, the. Nest of Common Gull {Laius caiitts). supplies were cut down to the minimum, and no drinkableswere taken at all. xVt the same time, the work is ex-hausting, and ones appetite is apt to become insatiable. Iwas often glad to devour raw
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . -1 i::-> 5: Bird Life in Denmark—On the Fjord :U5 Some of tlie little sandy islands in the fjord by nowbegan to luue a few eggs—Ringed l*lovers and ArcticTerns and a few Black-headed Gulls. On a long days work the question of food is a diffi-culty. With so many photographic things to carry, the. Nest of Common Gull {Laius caiitts). supplies were cut down to the minimum, and no drinkableswere taken at all. xVt the same time, the work is ex-hausting, and ones appetite is apt to become insatiable. Iwas often glad to devour raw the eggs of (xulls, Kedshanks,and Terns, and found them very refreshing indeed. Towards the end of our stay the numbers of birds 340 Pictures of Bird Life seemed daily on the increase, and we could see that a littlelater all this neighbom-hood would be indeed a paradisefor ornithologists. Many thousands of Brent Geese still lingered, postponingtheir departure for their Arctic breeding-grounds. Thewhole expanse of marsh traversed by us was cohered withthe evidence of their recent abundance. It resembled, infact, a huge farmyard, and it was difficult to hnd a cleanspot large enough to sit down on. Tlie fishermen in theautumn and winter shoot great numbers of them fromhiding-places, in which they lay prone on the watch. Iheard of one man having killed twenty-
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