The Golden Plover 



I had thus had the nest under observation for nineteen 

 days. On being hatched, the young plovers run actively 

 almost from their first hour, and are tended carefully by both 

 parent birds. 



In the early days of July Cheviot, up to the summit 

 plateau, resounds with the wild melodious cries of countless 

 golden plover tending their young in various stages of 

 growth. By August the majority have left the hills, but 

 stragglers are still on the moors at a much later date, and 

 flocks of new-comers may be found right through the autumn, 

 halting for a while on the high moors on their journey from 

 the north to their winter quarters on the coast. ^ 



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