. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . September that the birds setout on their southern migration. A Highland boatman—akeen observer—near whose home many terns nest, tells mehow on a September day all the sea swallows from the islandnear his home congregate together. Then, rising to a greatheight and wheeling and screaming, they gather themselvesinto line and set out on their journey. But, strangely enough,it is not to the south, making towards Skerryvore and theIrish coast, that they set their course, but due north. Canit be that they make the passa
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . September that the birds setout on their southern migration. A Highland boatman—akeen observer—near whose home many terns nest, tells mehow on a September day all the sea swallows from the islandnear his home congregate together. Then, rising to a greatheight and wheeling and screaming, they gather themselvesinto line and set out on their journey. But, strangely enough,it is not to the south, making towards Skerryvore and theIrish coast, that they set their course, but due north. Canit be that they make the passage round Cape Wrath andthe north of Scotland and go south by way of the North Sea,or is their northerly flight a short one only, to join themselves,perhaps, with other colonies in the neighbourhood? Even in October one sees terns fishing along thecoast, and a Hebridean fisherman assured me that on oneoccasion he had seen a solitary individual as late asDecember. Being such late nesters, the terns, when they set out forthe south, leave behind them numbers of their young of. ■% •►- .V
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