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and pick up food left by each receding wave, some- 

 times sitting on the green and yellow moss-covered 

 rocks. Rock-pipits, rising with darting flight, call 

 their plaintive weet-tuit-weet as they fly. over the 

 patches of white campion ; and meadow-pipits are 



YOUNG CORMORANTS 



also roused, these uttering a somewhat similar note. 

 On the cliffs, where a few noisy starlings are going to 

 roost, are small pools of water, left there by the last 

 storm; for only in rough weather does the sea rise 

 to this height. 



Many flowers, including bird's-foot trefoil, thistle, 

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