To Mountain Tarn 



the winter, will cease. Only the dry stones will 

 be left. The tenants of the moorland or common 

 may find elsewhere to go, and other places will be 

 richer as they become poor. Or they may be 

 driven to change their natural wild nesting places 

 for the homelier pasture ground. 



Such is the redistribution going on through the 

 agency of golf. Whether for good or evil boots 

 not. Only it is needful, in any account of the 

 wild life of Scotland, to distinguish the present 

 from the past, and show how things are tending. 

 So marked is this as to strike the bucolic sense 

 of the rustic by the streamside ; who, all innocent 

 of theory, only knows that a new cry is in the air, 

 a new form has joined the lapwing, a new tenant 

 has come to the pasture. 



On the whole, the change is greatest on the 

 coast, where is only a narrow strip very much 

 sought after, because of its light dry bottom, 

 its sparse grass, and sandy bunkers. And in the 

 case of birds whose habits compel them to breed 

 near the sea. Such, for instance, as the various 

 terns which dive for a living, and even feed their 

 young on fish. Driven from one coast moor they 

 must find another, which may take them so far 

 away that they will no longer come and go. The 

 alternative of breeding on the sand outside the 

 dunes is not always possible. The range of high 

 tides is an objection. The immediate neighbour- 

 hood of a golf-course is a busy and disturbing factor. 



