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bird watching expedition. The shore was
shoal + rocky. We saw about 250 oyster catcher,
50 +/- curlew, 20 redshanks; 10 turnstone, 9 or 10 dunlin
3 lapwings; 200 +/- common term, 2 sandwich tern
25 +/- lesser black backed gulls, 10 +/- great black backs
+ lots of black headed + herring gulls, 12 +/- jackdaws
1 rock pipit
Aug [August] 1/52 [1953]. It rained all day [word crossed out] morning today + kept us confined to
barracks. Joyce [Cowan] had a chance to drive to
Aberdeen with the Yates this afternoon on a
shopping expedition. In the meantime the children
had the Forsyth-Grant grandchildren as
tea guests + I explored the cliffs northward.
I found the remains of a very old building
perched precariously on the tip of a rocky
shelf overhanging the sea. I find that this
has quite a story. As told me some time
in the 13 hundreds the local lairds took
rather a violent dislike to the local sherif [sherriff]
+ after a hare + hounds chase they boiled
him on top of the hill near here. The
road leading to the place is still called
Sherriffs Kettle. For this exploit one of
the lairds, Barclay of Ure was banished
+ condemned to live twixt land + sea. He
built the stone house of which the remains
I found are all that remains.
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