. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . )ut between two ofus it would have taken a week to have crossed tliat. Nest of Avocet {Rcciirvirosfia avocetta). marsh dry, so we put them down half-way to be pickedup on our return, and from being wet up to oiu kneeswe were soon wading up to oiu waists, off to the island we had come to investigate. The first island, a narrow strip about a hundred yardslong, as my friend tersely expressed it, fairly stank of 840 Pictures of Bird Life birds—that peculiar smell so familiar to both of us,which is so noticeable wherever large numbe
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . )ut between two ofus it would have taken a week to have crossed tliat. Nest of Avocet {Rcciirvirosfia avocetta). marsh dry, so we put them down half-way to be pickedup on our return, and from being wet up to oiu kneeswe were soon wading up to oiu waists, off to the island we had come to investigate. The first island, a narrow strip about a hundred yardslong, as my friend tersely expressed it, fairly stank of 840 Pictures of Bird Life birds—that peculiar smell so familiar to both of us,which is so noticeable wherever large numbers of sea-])irdsare nestiuo- in a confined space. ^Vt each end Mas astrong colony of Sandwich Terns. Tlieir extremely hand-some eggs were thickly scattered over the ground, so closetogether that I was able, a few days later, to photographfifteen nests on one whole plate, in doing which I brokeseveral eggs by treading on tliem. The eggs were curiouslydifferent (in no case were there more than two eggs in anest) ; but in Acry many instances one egg would be heavilyl)lotchcd or zoned round witli dark markings, wliile theother was un
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