. Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland . eception given to the gunner by thecormorant. But should the Broadsman get to windward ofhim and maim him, he will, if captured alive, seize upon hisperson, either hand or thigh, it matters not which. But he and his kind, the shags, are best seen by the rockyshores of Mona. There all winter you shall see them sittingon the rocks at low water fishing. Uncanny birds theylook, until their fierce-looking heads betray their the grey mists veil the hills of Wales, and Bangorlights peep through the mists, often of an evening, too, yoush
. Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland . eception given to the gunner by thecormorant. But should the Broadsman get to windward ofhim and maim him, he will, if captured alive, seize upon hisperson, either hand or thigh, it matters not which. But he and his kind, the shags, are best seen by the rockyshores of Mona. There all winter you shall see them sittingon the rocks at low water fishing. Uncanny birds theylook, until their fierce-looking heads betray their the grey mists veil the hills of Wales, and Bangorlights peep through the mists, often of an evening, too, youshall see them flighting there down the Straits to the islandcoast, flying black and swiftly against the azure, in bunchesof eight, nine, or ten. Or, on some bright sunny morning,you may watch an old cormorant sitting on the Bell-lightsurveying the Straits, a sentinel to the passing fish. Buthe is essentially a bird of the sea, and therefore not aresident of our swampy lands, and so not much is knownabout him : he smells too—que voiilez vons deplus?. cormorants nesting-place [Chislebury Bay).
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