BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
ROOKERIES— ijon/inued. 
Place. 
Nests. 
Remarks. How long 
in existence, etc. 
Source of 
information. 
Situation. 
Maxi- 
mum Nr 
about. 
No. in 
■ 1908. 
Parish op Kirkpatrick-Fikmino— eorrfmued. 
Woodhouse . 
Firs mainly, some 
Oak. 
800- 
1,000 
In 1887 a severe storm 
uprooted many of 
the trees of the Rob- 
gill Tower rookery 
(Dornock) during 
nesting opera- 
tions. This seems 
to have frightened 
several members of 
the colony, and 
three nests were 
built on the other 
side of the Kirtle, 
these forming the 
nucleus of the 
present great rook- 
ery. Next spring 
there were nine, and 
the third year 
twenty-one nests. 
W. Bell, 
20.viii.l908. 
Parish of Langholm. 
•Greenbank . . 
Plane, Beech and 
Scots Fir. 
100 
Protected 
W. Laidlaw, 
6.vi,1908. 
Edensholm . . 
Every variety, 
mostly Oak. 
50 
Used to be about 
fifty, now cleaned 
out. 
Do. 
•Townhead 
Church. 
90 
In existence a num- 
ber of years ; not 
so numerous as last 
year. 
W. Haining, 
1.V.1908. 
•Erkinholm 
20-30 
Home, 
30.V.1908. 
•Langholm 
Burgh. 
80 
60 
In existence thirty 
years or more, for- 
merly more numer- 
ous. 
J. Smith, 
4.V.1908. 
• PracticaUy one and the same rookery ; and over estimated.— J. H. Milne-Home, 19.iv.l908. 
