The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . a large hens egg but narrowerin shape. During the period of incubation, beingrolled over and over upon the dirty seaweed, itbecomes a dark brown. In addition to the de-caying weed the presence of an ejected fish or twomakes the nest not a savoury object. The gannetis one of the Pelicanidse, and retains in a pouchsmall fish, which it disgorges at the nest beforeagain going fishing. We sat near them andwatched their ways; they sat stolidly, nearly allof them with their heads to the wind, and theyseem careless sitters, as in some cases the eggs
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . a large hens egg but narrowerin shape. During the period of incubation, beingrolled over and over upon the dirty seaweed, itbecomes a dark brown. In addition to the de-caying weed the presence of an ejected fish or twomakes the nest not a savoury object. The gannetis one of the Pelicanidse, and retains in a pouchsmall fish, which it disgorges at the nest beforeagain going fishing. We sat near them andwatched their ways; they sat stolidly, nearly allof them with their heads to the wind, and theyseem careless sitters, as in some cases the eggsmight be seen beside them. If one rose from hernest, the others made a discontented outcry andpecked at her as she waddled to the cliffs edgeand were not above dragging bits out of her nestfor their own use, and stealing her fish in herabsence. Here and there among them a guillemotmight be seen, beside it its beautiful turquoise eggdeposited upon the bare rock. In the side of the rock below the gannetswas a kind of arched alcove, which was occupied. Q <?J o rS) < o < 03 Q« < W RAMSEY AND GRASSHOLM ISLANDS 325 by three pairs of kittiwakes, whose manners andcustoms quite represented those of the speciesgenerally at that particular time of the were simply absorbed in love-making ; thebeautiful little pearly creatures seemed to havebeen schooled in every possible variety of flirtation,and under every ledge of rock overhanging thesea these flirtations appeared to be going ways must be seen to be believed—and, infact, only Monsieur Daudet or Ohnet could possiblydescribe satisfactorily the events of these alcoves. The young of the falcons are hatched in ahollow under a rock, a simple depression in theground forming the nest. Though so young thatthey could hardly stand, they seemed able to fight,and wrestled together and bit each other like youngbears. They were covered with pure white down. The nest of the black-backed gull showed usquite a rising fam
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