18 BIRD LIFE IN WILD WALES 



on our right front is the nest. Two young Ravens 

 are plainly visible, the third is seen with difficulty, as 

 part of the nest is hidden from view by a projecting 

 ledge and is only to be examined by leaning over 

 and round the cliffside. 



But after satisfying our curiosity we leave the 

 wild-looking gorge with its forbidding-looking crags 

 and boulders, a spot nevertheless well suited for 

 Corvus corax, whose very croak is suggestive of 

 gloomy surroundings. 



The keeper tells us that in many years' experience 

 he has never known a Buzzard's eyrie to face the 

 west, and we fully endorse his opinion from all those 

 which we have ourselves examined. We are unable 

 to assign any cause for this, but the fact remains. 

 Per contra, the Raven for preference chooses a 

 western site. 



Up here we are in the haunt of the rare and 

 local Pied Flycatcher, and although it is too early to 

 make a certainty of finding a nest, yet we discover 

 the commencement of one in a hollow birch. 



One day, too, in the course of a long ramble after 

 Curlews' nests, we come in contact with the still 

 rarer White Wagtail, at which we are much de- 

 lighted. 



Thus ends what has been to a lover of Nature a 

 most enjoyable visit, and one in which, notwith- 

 standing the shortness of its period, we have been 

 able to see much that delights the naturalist's eye. 



