. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . RAZORBILL APPROACHING HER RAZORBILL BROODING. Her Egg is on an Exposed and Narrow Ledfe—an Unusual Situation. CHAPTER XXXIII SUMMER IN THE WESTERN ISLANDSI.—^JUNE During the month of June the weather was almost uniformlycold, and from midday on the ist till the 21st of the monththe wind blew steadily from the north. For the first thirteendays the shade temperature did not once reach 60 degrees,and on the 12th the northerly wind reached gale force. Forfully ten days Ben Nevis was covered with an unbroken coa
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . RAZORBILL APPROACHING HER RAZORBILL BROODING. Her Egg is on an Exposed and Narrow Ledfe—an Unusual Situation. CHAPTER XXXIII SUMMER IN THE WESTERN ISLANDSI.—^JUNE During the month of June the weather was almost uniformlycold, and from midday on the ist till the 21st of the monththe wind blew steadily from the north. For the first thirteendays the shade temperature did not once reach 60 degrees,and on the 12th the northerly wind reached gale force. Forfully ten days Ben Nevis was covered with an unbroken coat-ing of fresh snow, an unusual event so late in the season. On June i the majority of the curlew had hatched outtheir young and the oyster catchers were sitting hard. It isinteresting to notice how conservative this latter bird is inthe choice of a nesting-site, returning each season to the samestretch of shingle and laying her eggs within a few feet ofthe site occupied by her the previous year. On June 2 I sawwhat seemed to be a pure white oyster catcher fly past, accom-panied by its mate. On that day
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