ANGLESEY 



AT the end of May, my early morning, evening 

 and week-end rambles in my own district 

 ceased for a time, and I had to leave many 

 a new-comer and many a resident species at the most 

 interesting moment of the year. This loss, however, 

 was more than lightened for me by the prospect of 

 a stay of some weeks in the island of Anglesey, 

 where I promised myself to make the acquaintance 

 of many a strange bird by land and sea. So, with a 

 last look round on the evening of the 2yth May, I 

 packed up my camera, and on the following day 

 arrived at Beaumaris. 



The prospect I had painted for myself was one 

 of innumerable opportunities and adequate achieve- 

 ment. I was going down to a land flowing with the 

 milk and honey of ornithology, and why might not 

 boundless enthusiasm and steadily grinding industry 

 look to secure a goodly share ? I am disposed to 

 look back upon that period of effervescence with some 

 leniency. It helped to carry twenty-five pounds of 

 camera and tackle along some hundreds of miles of 

 road during those three weeks ; it worked the clock 



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