. Bird-hunting through wild Europe . SERVIAN VILLAGE ON DANUBE. BULGARIAN VILLAGE \To face page 314 THROUGH WILD EUROPE 315 Rettig and I climbed up on the roof in order to lootthe Storks eggs, for there were several nests. Un-fortunately, they all held young birds, which wereno good to us. If they had only been eatable wewould have taken them fast enough. There would,I expect, have been a fine shindy if we had beenseen up there, as the Storks are much veneratedhere, and it is difficult to get eggs for that reason. On the lake of Raselm, which we passed again,we found a large colony of Herring
. Bird-hunting through wild Europe . SERVIAN VILLAGE ON DANUBE. BULGARIAN VILLAGE \To face page 314 THROUGH WILD EUROPE 315 Rettig and I climbed up on the roof in order to lootthe Storks eggs, for there were several nests. Un-fortunately, they all held young birds, which wereno good to us. If they had only been eatable wewould have taken them fast enough. There would,I expect, have been a fine shindy if we had beenseen up there, as the Storks are much veneratedhere, and it is difficult to get eggs for that reason. On the lake of Raselm, which we passed again,we found a large colony of Herring Gulls, whichseemed to have yellower legs and feet than ourLarus argentatus, a dirty, yellowish white, but notyellow enough for Larus cachinnans, the usualMediterranean form. There were a lot of well-grown young birds, but I managed to find a fewclutches of eggs, though no more than two in a near here shot a pair of Great White Herons{Ardea alba), the male of which had beautiful longplumes—over forty, I think, writing from had seen a
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