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horn. They allowed of a close approach and then flew up on to 

 the hillside, which is well clothed with long grass at this point. 

 They were afterwards fed by the adult birds, so there can be little 

 doubt of their having nested on the Craig this season. I do not 

 think there are any previous records of this species nesting there. 

 Charles Kirk, Glasgow. 



Dunlin brooding Young Redshanks. On 26th May 1914, 

 I was photographing a Dunlin at a nest in which the eggs were on the 

 point of hatching. About 15 yards from the Dunlin's nest was 

 that of a Redshank's containing three young, and an eggshell from 

 which one of them had just emerged. After I had obtained several 

 photographs of the Dunlin she stopped coming to her nest, and I 

 noticed that she disappeared in the vicinity of the Redshank's nest. 

 I went forward to this nest and raised the Dunlin from close beside 

 it. I lay down and watched again. She soon came down and 

 disappeared from view beside the Redshank's nest. Presently she 

 emerged carrying something in her bill, which she dropped a short 

 distance away. I went to the spot and found the empty shell from 

 the Redshank's nest. I allowed her to settle, and then quietly 

 approached the Redshank's nest. I could hear the Dunlin keeping 

 up a constant twittering in the nest, and when I was within a few 

 yards she flew off. She had been brooding the young Redshanks. 

 As the bird was very tame I set up my camera a few feet from the 

 nest and sat down behind it. In less than a minute she came on 

 and I got several exposures. It was rather ridiculous to see 

 her trying to cover three young Redshanks. The task was much too 

 large for her, and she could never manage more than two at a time. 

 I wished to see what would happen when the Redshank returned to 

 her nest, but she would not approach when I was near. I therefore 

 left the place and returned in about half an hour, when each bird 

 flew off its own nest. It is probable that the Dunlin mistook the 

 Redshank's nest for her own, the eggs in which were just chipping. 

 Russell G. Thin, Edinburgh. 



Fulmars and Common Guillemots at Butt of Lewis. 



The Fulmars recorded as arriving here in April were stoned 

 and frightened away after a month's residence, their fearlessness 

 making them a tempting target for the local youths. Several pairs 

 again returned about the middle of June, but they are now quite as 

 scary and frightened as are the gulls. They are not yet breeding, 

 but still keep flying around and into every creek as if looking for 

 a convenient situation. 



Several pairs of Common Guillemots frequented the cliff here 



