TO BIRD ROCK IN AN OPEN BOAT 165 



KITTIWAKES ON THEIR NESTS 



assuring myself that the exposures were rightly and fully 

 timed in giving them about one eight-hundredth of a second. 

 I also climbed down the ladders at the southeast corner and 

 took note of the Murres and Razor-bills. At the top I snapped 

 at birds passing a fixed point off some projecting rock, or as 

 they alighted or left, as well as at passing Gannets. Murres 

 and Kittiwakes nested mostly down below. The afternoon 

 was devoted to descending the main ladder on the west side, 

 and from it photographing Kittiwakes on their nests, and 

 then clambering around and up toward the north, where there 

 was a splendid array of birds, a wonderful sight. 



