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large kittiwake colony. I cannot estimate the
number of birds involved but it must be at
least 200 thousand + may well be double that
The cliffs, at their best, are about a mile
long. + must stand 100-200 ft [feet] high. They
are of boulder conglomerate with oblique
dykes of sandstone. Huge caves have
been eroded in them + the face is studded
with projecting boulders + with the cavities
from which they have fallen. These
provide the nest sites. Report has it that
in June the Razorbills are as abundant as
the kittiwakes now are. All young are on
point of flight as also are the few herring
gulls. Saw only 3 or 4 razorbills + a like
number of common guillemots (murres), a
few puffins, several eiders + rock doves
3 rock pipits prowled in + out of the caves
In the afternoon we visited the Forsyth
Grants at Ecclescreigh House + had cocktails
there. Never take gin + orange in these
parts - it is worse than the worst American
cocktail at its worst! Forsyth Grants
brother O.S. Forsyth Grant was lost at sea
in Cumberland sound Sept [September] 24, 1911. He had
been trading there for several years.
The Grant daughter is Air Marshal Foggarty -
a pretty good sort. They are just back from
Singapore. She suffers from a very common
Marginalia: Fowlsheugh
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