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that somewhere in that heap it had its secret nest ; 

 but as I was more concerned to get its picture than 

 to find its nest, I stalked it until, from the foot of 

 the pile, I obtained a fairly satisfactory series of 

 photographs. 



Rock-doves were often present along this shore, 

 starting out in precipitate flight with clapping wings 

 as we invaded the recesses of the rocks. 



We found a blackbird had nested facing the 

 sea, and we fed the voracious young ones with 

 potted shrimps, as became birds of quasi-marine 

 pretensions. Probably they would have swallowed 

 hobnails, if presented, for they are ravenous eaters, 

 and will make powerful efforts to gulp down one's 

 finger-end. 



I have mentioned a pair of sheldrakes as feeding 

 regularly in the early hours of the morning in a 

 small pond up the strait. At about eleven o'clock 

 in the morning a pair used to come down the strait 

 with equal regularity, and turning the corner at the 

 lighthouse, circle in-shore, and disappear over a near 

 ridge forming the seaward edge of the bracken- 

 covered land beyond. My attention was specially 

 aroused by the fact that a few seconds after the pair 

 had passed over the ridge, the male bird, without 

 settling, at once wheeled into sight again, and, 

 following the line by which he had come, returned 

 up the strait. This gallant sheldrake, so punctilious 

 in escorting his lady home, was evidently not of the 

 sort who are stated to mount guard over the nesting 



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