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Title: The birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Mathew, Murray A
Subjects: Birds Ornithology
Publisher: London (England) : R.H. Porter
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se are, in thesummer time, when the various cliff birds resort to them to nest, sothronged with countless birds, that they serve to redeem the countyfrom the charge we have had elsewhere to bring against it of being,comparatively, uninteresting to the ornithologist, and also afford ajustification for our book, which, without them, we should have feltno incentive to compile. Anyone who has ever visited thesebeautiful islands, especially in bright summer weather, cannot fail tohave been impressed with the scenes presented to him, which willfor ever live in his memory. The most important of them in size,and in extent of bird population, are Ramsey, Grasholm, Skomer,Skokholm, and Caldy. Besides these there are various others,satellites of the larger islands, or rocky islets and stacks, more orless distant from the coast, such as the Bishops Rocks, where theGreater Black-backed Gull, the Sea-Pie, &c, nest; Skokholm Stack,tenanted by a colony of the Common Tern ; the Eligoog Stacks, off
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ROCKS AND ISLANDS AT THE SOUTH END OF RAMSEY ISLAND. The Birds of Pembrokeshire xxiii. the coast to the south of Pembroke; St. Margarets Isle, connectedat low water with Caldy, &c, &c, and the Midland, a small island,yet sufficiently large to afford summer pasture to sheep, betweenSkomer and the coast. The Danish names of all the islands in-dicate their former occupation by the Danes, who had besidesvarious settlements upon the sea board of the county. Ramsey—Danish, the Strong Island?Taking the islands in order from the north, we have first todescribe the one that, in our opinion, is the most picturesque in itsrocky scenery, and the brightest in its summer garb of flowers,beautiful Ramsey. To anyone approaching it by land, as hedraws near to St. Davids, its lofty central peaks seem to be theboundary of the coast, but he will find that they are separatedby a channel two miles in width, Ramsey Sound, which he willhave to cross, embarking at the life-boat station, the little h

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