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July 25. This morning I telephoned George Waterston,
35 George Street, Secretary of the Scottish Ornithologists
Club. I was greeted most cheerfully + invited
to go on a tern "ringing" expedition this
afternoon. [George] Waterston picked me up at 4 o'clock
+ we drove out to a quaint old village, South
Queensferry, built right on the waters edge
a stones throw north of the Forth Bridge. This
was my first view of the famous structure
and I must say that it is most impressive.
I think I prefer its design over that of the
San Francisco Bay Bridge. As the product
of a private railway company built in
the 1800's it is amazing. I find the great
tubular main girders + the heavily strutted
secondary girders most interesting.
The rest of the crew A.G.S. Bryson, 7 Forres Str [Street],
Patrick W. Sanderman 23 Corstorphine Hill Road, Ed. [Edinburgh], +
another whos name I do not remember met
us there + the harbor master took us out
to the island in his boat. The island lies
immediately east of the bridge with one
support rising from it. Its main features
are a small fortification now completely
abandoned.
It was covered with terns of at least
3 species. Sandwich terns, large, with very black
cap and black legs + beak, the common tern +
the roseate tern, the latter is ver similar to the common
Marginalia: Tern colony
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