. Bird life in wild Wales. Birds. WITH THE SEA BIRDS AT TENBY 225 their nakedness. Cormorants' nests smell abominably, owing to the decomposing remains of fish in and around them, not to mention the pools of liquid guano collected in all the rock shallows. The eggs, too, have a curiously rancid smell, even on the exterior. Just here, too, a colony of quaint, gaudy-beaked Sea Parrots, as the Puffin is often called, have their. CdKMHRANTS AXU summer quarters. Most of the nests are in irregularly dug holes at the grassy summit of the cliff, but some few are in crannies far down the sheer
. Bird life in wild Wales. Birds. WITH THE SEA BIRDS AT TENBY 225 their nakedness. Cormorants' nests smell abominably, owing to the decomposing remains of fish in and around them, not to mention the pools of liquid guano collected in all the rock shallows. The eggs, too, have a curiously rancid smell, even on the exterior. Just here, too, a colony of quaint, gaudy-beaked Sea Parrots, as the Puffin is often called, have their. CdKMHRANTS AXU summer quarters. Most of the nests are in irregularly dug holes at the grassy summit of the cliff, but some few are in crannies far down the sheer rocks. After some rather energetic digging with a trowel we succeed in bringing a Puffin or two to hand, and are thus enabled to examine them at leisure, taking good care, however, to keep our fingers out of harm's way, for this species can, if so inclined, inflict a severe bite. i6. 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 Walpole-Bond, J. A. London, T. Fisher Unwin
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