The Birds of Guernsey And the Neighboring Islands Alderney Sark Jethou Herm
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Martin's, near Moulin Huet, the first land they would make on their arrival from Brittany. ' ' Very soon after their arrival, however, they spread over the whole Island of Guernsey, as well as all the other neighbouring H 98 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. islands, in all of which they are equally plentiful ; they seem to cross from one to the other without much considering four or five miles of sea, or being the least particular as to taking the shortest passage across from island to island. As usual, ther...e were a great number of Cuckoos in the Vale whilst I was there this summer (1878) ; but I was un- fortunate in not finding eggs, and in not seeing any of the foster-parents feeding their over-grown proteges : this was rather surprising, as there were so many Cuckoos about, and many must have been hatched and out of the nest long before we left at the end of July. I should think, however, Tree and Meadow Pipits, Skylarks and Stonechats, from their numbers and the numbers of their nests, must be the foster-parents most usually selected ; other favour- ites, such as Wagtails, Hedgesparrows, and Eobins, being comparatively scarce in that part of the Island, and Wheaters, which were numerous, had their nests too far under large stones to give the Cuckoo an opportunity of depositing her eggs there.
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