. Wanderings of a naturalist . t. Dotterel on his Nest 3,600 feet above the Sea.(A big snowfield was within 10 yards of the nest.) CHAPTER XXIII THE DOTTEREL OF THE HIGH TOPS MOST fearless, as perhaps most charming, of all birdswho have their homes about the high tops is the truedotterel. Compared with that dweller of the coast,the ringed dotterel, which is numerous throughout the BritishIsles, the bird under notice is rare, for there are certainlyfewer than one hundred pairs in all Scotland, and at theoutside but half a dozen pairs south of the Border. So confiding is this graceful wader that
. Wanderings of a naturalist . t. Dotterel on his Nest 3,600 feet above the Sea.(A big snowfield was within 10 yards of the nest.) CHAPTER XXIII THE DOTTEREL OF THE HIGH TOPS MOST fearless, as perhaps most charming, of all birdswho have their homes about the high tops is the truedotterel. Compared with that dweller of the coast,the ringed dotterel, which is numerous throughout the BritishIsles, the bird under notice is rare, for there are certainlyfewer than one hundred pairs in all Scotland, and at theoutside but half a dozen pairs south of the Border. So confiding is this graceful wader that in the Gaeliclanguage he is known as An t-Amadan Mointeach, orthe fool of the peat moss, his absurd tameness seem-ing to the Highlander to mark him as a bird devoid ofsense. But the idotterel is by no means a fool, although his eggswould be safer from the collectors who are so often on histrack were he to borrow some of the wariness and cunningof the golden plover. The dotterel is without exception the highest-nesting birdin Bri
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