. Birds through the year . g|f^#fpi GREAT BLACK-BACKS and tufts of that they can find. At the bottom of the cliffsthe nests will be largely built of dry seaweed; further up,grass and rock-plants will predominate, and sea-thrift andcampion blossoms will be worked into its sides. Cormorantsand shags chiefly build in caves and crevices of steep rocksoverhanging the sea, and except on small islets, can seldombe seen from landward. In a few spots, as on the famousBird Rock on the River Dysynni near Towyn in Merioneth,they breed on rocks some miles from the sea; and insome parts of the west of Irela
. Birds through the year . g|f^#fpi GREAT BLACK-BACKS and tufts of that they can find. At the bottom of the cliffsthe nests will be largely built of dry seaweed; further up,grass and rock-plants will predominate, and sea-thrift andcampion blossoms will be worked into its sides. Cormorantsand shags chiefly build in caves and crevices of steep rocksoverhanging the sea, and except on small islets, can seldombe seen from landward. In a few spots, as on the famousBird Rock on the River Dysynni near Towyn in Merioneth,they breed on rocks some miles from the sea; and insome parts of the west of Ireland they even build in and then, where a steep face of rock stands obliquelyto the sea, a cormorant or shag will build on an inaccessible SEA-CLIFFS IN NESTING TIME 143 ledge overlooking the easier slopes where the gulls the strange bird writhing her long neck from her nestmakes an odd contrast with the white troops of sittinggulls. Guillemots and puffins spin to and fro between theirbreeding-places and
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