194 BIRD LIFE IN WILD WALES 



Hence the two nests ; and long may the Kites con- 

 tinue there ! But to continue. Examining the D. 

 rock, a Buzzard's eyrie was soon found, containing 

 one nestling about a week old ; and in P. wood, in 

 the eyrie which I found well lined with larch shoots 

 on May 5th, were three really well-marked eggs. 

 Indeed, the keeper told me that for a set of three he 

 had never seen better ones, and his opinion is well 

 worth having. They photographed all these good 

 things, as well as a Rock Ouzle's nest in T. dingle, 

 with two young and a like number of eggs on the 

 point of hatching. 



Now to the day's work in question. After break- 

 fasting we all started for the T. valley, and on the 

 way, examining a dingle not far from L. House, 

 found a Grey Wagtail sitting on half a dozen eggs. 

 This nest was built on a nice ledge of rock about a 

 yard above the foaming torrent, and I think that the 

 bird might have been photoed on her eggs. Just 

 here, too, I almost put my hand on a Ring Ouzel's 

 back as she sat on her five eggs, which were almost 

 fresh (you may always know a fresh egg by holding 

 it up to the light). A Water Ouzel dashed up the 

 dingle, and I feel sure had his mossy home some- 

 where close. I saw that the Buzzard's nest there 

 had come to grief, for we found fragments of egg- 

 shell in it — another instance of the Crow's robbing 

 propensities, I think. I may say that our chief object 

 to-day was to try and locate a pair of Kites which 

 had been reported to us ; but on reaching the spot 

 we saw nothing of them. We hunted through T. 

 wood carefully, but beyond finding a Sandpiper's 



