COUNTRY LIFE
A " Kindred Point "
Any lover of the English landscape or of its birds is advised to visit Baggy Point in North Devon, which has just been given by two generous ladies to the National Trust. I know no place within the island where one can more pleasurably watch the grey gulls (as they are locally called) nesting and feeding their young. The west winds strike the tall cliff and turn a right-angle upwards, lifting the gulls without a stir of the wing from the base to the summit, and they drop as softly as thistledown beside their nests. You may lie on the cliff's edge and peer at them through a fringe of thrift ; and you are indeed " found in the pink "; or you may sit on a lower ledge and watch not only the grey gulls, but at a lower level the great black-backs and the seals. Baggy Point is a fellow to Morte Point at the other side of the bay, now quite held in by the National Trust, bless it!
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