CHAPTER XII 



BLACK-HEADED GULL SEDGE-WARBLER REED- 

 WARBLER GRASSHOPPER -WARBLER -- RED- 

 SHANK REED-BUNTING 



A VISIT to a colony of Black-headed Gulls is a 

 sight that would interest any naturalist or sym- 

 pathetic person, and to us it was exceedingly 

 fascinating. Long before we reached the place 

 Gulls could be seen circling round above their 

 nests. Leaving our yacht about half a mile from 

 the spot, we took to the punts and rowed towards 

 the Gullery, coming at last to a large open expanse 

 of water, in one corner of which was a point of 

 land containing a few trees. Between these and 

 the open water was a large piece of marshy ground 

 thickly covered with reeds and sedge, then came 

 a strip of deep water fringed with a border of 

 reeds. 



