136 BIRD LIFE IN WILD WALES 



on a ledge of rock — an unusual site — with the usual 

 two eggs. 



Thence to the G. falls where the Buzzards were 

 nesting. There were two eyries here, as is usual, but 

 strangely enough each contained an egg. The one in 

 the nest furthest up the rocks was incubated to some 

 extent, but the other was lying in a regular pool of 

 rain water, and was much discoloured. I brought 

 this egg up to the eyrie in use, in hopes that it might 

 come to something. Both these eggs were without 

 markings. The female here is an exceedingly large 

 light-coloured bird, the male a distinctly small dark- 

 coloured fellow. We had a fine view of them both 

 as they circled above the valley. 



Crossing the moor, we reached and examined R. 

 nursery, and our first find was a Mag.'s nest with a 

 single egg in it. On the border of this plantation we 

 saw a brace of Grey Hens which must have nests 

 somewhere close, and they obviously (or the black 

 cock himself) have been roosting in this nursery, for 

 there were innumerable droppings on the branches of 

 and under several trees. We now worked along the 

 L. rocks close by, finding several Jackdaws' nests 

 with eggs, and three Kestrels' scratchings, but none 

 of these contained eggs. There are two young 

 Ravens in the nest here, which Pike pictured in March ; 

 and here was exemplified a point in the Raven's 

 nesting economy on which I was by no means 

 certain, viz., that she does not always lay her eggs on 

 successive days, as the rest of the Crow family do, 

 but follows the example of the Hawk tribe in laying 

 only every other day. Now there was only one egg 



