. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . Puffins Burrow, showing Egg and Head of Bird. caught you first. It can l)ite liard—nearly hard enough totake a piece out of yoiu- glove—and hang on vindictively,its little black eyes seeming to twinkle with anger and 190 Pictures of Bird Life resentment at being disturbed. On putting one down onthe ground, it is at first unable to rise, but flutters along. Nest of Lesser Black-backed Gull {Lams /iisais). to the ediie of the cliff in order to launch itself into theair ; once started, however, it is quite at home. The young Puffi
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . Puffins Burrow, showing Egg and Head of Bird. caught you first. It can l)ite liard—nearly hard enough totake a piece out of yoiu- glove—and hang on vindictively,its little black eyes seeming to twinkle with anger and 190 Pictures of Bird Life resentment at being disturbed. On putting one down onthe ground, it is at first unable to rise, but flutters along. Nest of Lesser Black-backed Gull {Lams /iisais). to the ediie of the cliff in order to launch itself into theair ; once started, however, it is quite at home. The young Puffins in their downy dress are curious littleobjects, sooty brown or dull black in colour, with whitechests. Their beaks have neither the size nor the brilliantcolours of the old ones. The old Puffins are fond of sittingin small groups on elexated points of rock, discussing, Ipresume, the weather and the state of the postures of these birds are very comical, some boltupright, others sitting or squatting, and others flapping theirlittle short wings as if to dry them. The Sea=birds of the Fame Islands 197 Kacli island lias its own special inhabitants. The Guille-mots are entirely restricted to the ])innacles, while the chiefstron<^hold of the Cormorants is on the JNIegstone. TheTerns in 181)5 were nesting in large numbers in the AVide-opens/ The Lesser Black-backed Gulls and the Herring-gulls nest al
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