1909
Oct 1. [October 1, 1909]
(No 2)
acres. There were many other fields containing from fifty
to two hundred Lapwings each or from one hundred to five
or six hundred Gulls, not to mention the Rooks & Starlings
which were constantly in sight, in countless numbers.
Yet the numbers of birds seen in these fields and pastures
seemed insignificant in comparison with those of the same
and other species which, at the same time, were frequenting
the sands bordering directly on the bay. These covered an
enormous expanse, stretching, indeed, as far as the eye could
reach, up and down the coast, and from the sand dunes
out to the water's edge their width being anywhere from half a mile to
more than twice that distance. Apparently the tide had
but recently uncovered them for they were everywhere wet
and shining, with shallow pools and rivulets here and there.
To say that they were everywhere alive with birds would but
feebly express the truth. There was, I believe, scarce a square