. Wanderings of a naturalist . l I had withdrawn my head from view. The season ofthe nesting of the peregrine falls, as a rule, early in April,and even by this date the raven should have hatched out herbrood. A pair of buzzards nest on the island, and not far fromtheir nesting-ledge a pair of grey crows, birds which canhere exercise their egg-sucking propensities to the full. Till the coming of May, then, the island is peopled withfew birds, and there is here comparative silence should avisitor land from a boat on a sunny morning of April. Butwith the first days of May there arrive at this sea
. Wanderings of a naturalist . l I had withdrawn my head from view. The season ofthe nesting of the peregrine falls, as a rule, early in April,and even by this date the raven should have hatched out herbrood. A pair of buzzards nest on the island, and not far fromtheir nesting-ledge a pair of grey crows, birds which canhere exercise their egg-sucking propensities to the full. Till the coming of May, then, the island is peopled withfew birds, and there is here comparative silence should avisitor land from a boat on a sunny morning of April. Butwith the first days of May there arrive at this sea-girt isle amultitude of feathered people, so that the island is quiet nolonger but throbbing with life and activity. Here may nowbe seen companies of intelligent razorbills, and in greaternumbers, guillemots of refined though foolish aspect. Butthe bird that frequents the island in greatest numbers is thepuffin. This quaint bird is present here during the nestingseason, literally in thousands, and the surface of the ocean 114. o !II O ^i&.^.u^>
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