EDINBURCxH ROOKERIES IN 1 92 1 11 



From a note by Patrick Neill in the Scots Magazine 

 for 1806 we learn that, in May of that year, young rooks 

 were exposed for sale in the Edinburgh Poultry Market 

 at 3s. a dozen. Doubtless they came from a local rookery. 



List of Edinburgh Rookeries in 192 i, with 



Number of Nests in Each. 



Nests. 



Morningside ; Woodburn Sanatorium {47 nests), Millbank 



and other grounds round about Canaan Lane in all 71 

 A solitary nest at Palmerston Road, and another in 

 Ramsay Gardens, may be mentioned here. 

 Braid Hermitage ; at the entrance gate. Braid Road . 23 



This rookery started in 191 9 with a dozen nests. 



Newington ; Blacket Place (42 nests). East Mayfield, and 



(a few only) east side of Dalkeith Road . . 68 



Duddingston ; in Duddingston Park (mainly at N.E. corner), 



in plantation on east side of cross road, and at the Mill 193 

 This appears to have taken the place of the once 

 large rookery which, until recently, existed at 

 Prestonfield, S.W. of Duddingston Loch, and is 

 mentioned by MacGillivray in Vol. i. (1837) of 

 his British Birds. 

 Niddrie House and neighbourhood . . . about 40 



Drum, near Gilmerton ; in two groups, one at the Dander- 

 hall gate and the other beside the house about no 

 Liberton ; mostly (53 nests) about the church and Manse, 



and at Mount Vernon . . . . .83 



There used to be a small colony at Kingston Grange, 

 but I could not see any nests there last year. 

 Comisto?i House; at the house (93 nests) and at Hunter's 



Tryst (an offshoot last year) . . . .128 



If my memory is not at fault, Comiston Rookery was 

 more populous forty to sixty years ago than now, 

 and there was, besides, a fairly large one at Morton 

 House. 

 Colinton ; mainly about the dell (both on CoHnton House 

 side right up to the southern boundary, and on the 

 opposite bank above the railway) ; some also opposite 

 the station and on the north side of the road beyond 

 the bridge ...... 363 



