. Wanderings of a naturalist . s not until late the preceding night that the wind hadmoderated. Now with the morning only a light air fromthe south-east ruffled the waters, but the sky was heavy withwatery clouds, and away towards Ardnamurchan and whereMull stood out dimly with mist-capped hills, great banks ofominous grey nimbus clouds lay piled up on the course lay past the island of Muldoanich, where, not somany years ago, the sea eagle still nested, and along theeastern shore of Vatersay, Sandray and Pabbay. Makingtheir flight in single file as is their custom, solans wingedthe
. Wanderings of a naturalist . s not until late the preceding night that the wind hadmoderated. Now with the morning only a light air fromthe south-east ruffled the waters, but the sky was heavy withwatery clouds, and away towards Ardnamurchan and whereMull stood out dimly with mist-capped hills, great banks ofominous grey nimbus clouds lay piled up on the course lay past the island of Muldoanich, where, not somany years ago, the sea eagle still nested, and along theeastern shore of Vatersay, Sandray and Pabbay. Makingtheir flight in single file as is their custom, solans wingedtheir way northward through the sounds between the islandson passage to their nesting cliffs on St. Kilda. Crossingtheir path, and heading almost all of them for Mingulay,hurried many razorbills and guillemots, flying usuallyin little companies, now just above the waters surface,now moving rapidly and at a considerable height above 100 ^•^ ^^H *** ■ ^,^^^#^$ ^ T!% --^ .~i0^^^^^ -. • : r-^ ■ - :■-■■ > Forty Feeling the BLACK-BACKED GULL.
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