The Annals of Scottish Natural History
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Excerpt from The Annals of Scottish Natural History: A Quarterly Magazine With Which Is Incorporated "the Scottish Naturalist" Terns, and I looked very carefully to see if I could detect any Common Terns amongst them, but was unable to do so. Eider Ducks were very abundant There were also many Shags, a few Cormorants, Puffins, and Redshanks. The two following days were spent on the islands of Egilshay, Gairsay, Sweyne Holm, and Green Holm. Corncrakes were calling in every clover and rye grass field. Twites were abundant, also Redshanks, Skylarks, Eider Ducks, Black Guillemots, Common Gulls, Starlings, Common Guillemots, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Oyster-Catchers, Rock Pipits, Shags, Arctic Terns, Herring Gulls, and Meadow-Pipits. There were large colonies of Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls breeding on the Green Holm, some of the former had chosen the stone slab placed over the grave of a young fellow drowned there in the sixties as a nesting-place. There was a small colony of Arctic Terns nesting on Sweyne Holm. Near the cottages were a few House Sparrows, and in the marshy ground I put up several Snipe, some of which were still drumming. I also noted a good many Lapwings, Hooded Crows, and Ringed Plovers, a few Rock-Doves, one Turnstone, and a Golden Plover. A Sand-Martin, one of the only two I saw in Orkney, flew along the shore. Primroses were growing in abundance on the grassy slopes facing the sea. On my return to the yacht I again saw two Great Northern Divers, one in full summer plumage and one immature. As they remained near the yacht till I left for the Shetlands, I had a splendid opportunity of watching them. On the 7th, I was delayed by fog for many hours, outside the Out Skerries, seeing many Fulmars, Richardson´s Skuas, Kittiwakes, Guillemots, Puffins, Shags, Lesser Blackbacked and Herring Gulls. The Black Guillemot is far less abundant than in the Orkneys, and the Great Blackbacked Gull much scarcer than the Lesser Black-backed Gull. One Stormy Petrel, one immature Gannet, and about six Manx Shearwaters flew past the yacht. In the afternoon I landed at Collafirth, and pointed out four House-Martins to a resident, who said they were the first he had ever seen there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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