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Identifier: outing58newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ull with his decoy ducks,to give confidence to approaching flocks.At other times the gulls have been ob-served to be less friendly with the ducks,for, when marine ducks were divingand emerging with fish which they hadjust caught, the gulls would swoop atthe ducks and try to snatch the fish fromthem. During April, and even into May, thegulls, preparatory to leaving us for thesummer, gather into flocks and resortto the shoals and flats, a noisy throng.There, with the aid of a strong glass,we may watch their mating antics, seethe males puff out the feathers of theirthroats and strut pompously about,heads thrown back and bills pointedaloft. The time for departure has come,and soon they have left us,—all but afew immature birds,—and presently theyare back at the old breeding resorts.A few adventurous ones arrive there asearly as the middle of March, and thenceon into May. The first eggs are laid about the mid-dle of May, and by early June nearlyall have sets, unless accident or robbery
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HERE WAS LIFE INDEED, THE VERY POETRY OF FORM, COLOR, AND MOTION should compel a second laying. In questof suitable nesting resorts they rangeaway up into the Arctic wilderness.Some are content with Labrador, New-foundland, Nova Scotia, and down tothe rocky islands of the coast of Maine,of which No Mans Land is their mostsoutherly breeding colony. Here I was,at last, viewing it from the tossing doryoffshore. We managed to make a landing in achasm and drag the boat out on a flatrock. The gulls hovered in clouds overus, screaming their angry protests. Al-most at once we began to find nestseverywhere, in endless profusion. Theywere rather slight platforms of grass orsea-weed, placed under a low spruce, bya rock, amid weeds or grass, in fact,in all sorts of situations. Three was theusual number of eggs, often two, andrarely four. They are large and hand-some, of dark drab or olive color, heavilymarked. Sheep had been ferried overto the island and left there for the sum-mer to graze. They

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