Outing . I HAD FINISHED, AND, EMERGING, SENT THE BIRDS OFF IN FRIGHT AND UPROAR. THE GULLS HOVER OVERHEAD, CACKLING NOISILY When the chicks emerge they arehardly able to stand, but within half aday they will run from the nest at theapproach of an intruder. In five weeksmore they begin to take to wing. Bythe middle of September all the youngare able to look out for that time the old ones desertthe island, leaving the youngsters tofollow, which they soon do. The island now fairly swarmed withdowny mottled youngsters, which hidin the grass or scurried before us indroves. In color
Outing . I HAD FINISHED, AND, EMERGING, SENT THE BIRDS OFF IN FRIGHT AND UPROAR. THE GULLS HOVER OVERHEAD, CACKLING NOISILY When the chicks emerge they arehardly able to stand, but within half aday they will run from the nest at theapproach of an intruder. In five weeksmore they begin to take to wing. Bythe middle of September all the youngare able to look out for that time the old ones desertthe island, leaving the youngsters tofollow, which they soon do. The island now fairly swarmed withdowny mottled youngsters, which hidin the grass or scurried before us indroves. In color and markings they re-semble the eggs from which they cameand remind one of animated eggs onstilts, with a stick inserted for a Markie had warned us not tochase them down to the waters edge, asin their fright they will launch into thesea, either to drown in the surf or becarried off by wind and current. The process of feeding this motleythrong is interesting. The food supplynear the island is far inadequate, so theadults scour the waters and shores formany miles ar
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