100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE April 2, 1921
Mar 31, 2021
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—H. W. Robinson
ON the loch of Skail in Orkney I remember a whooper swan still living writes of a pair of herring gulls taken from the nest by a farmer in 1771, which were still living in 1846, but departed soon after the old man died. Professor Newton () mentions a pair of blue tits which used a bottle in a tree as a nesting site for a hundred years; and Mr Howard () the case of a pair of wry-necks using the same nesting site for sixty years, as the occupier of the cottage, aged eighty, remembers the birds when a small boy.
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