Multiplying Birds I have just visited these several islands and
circumnavigated them. The birds' appreciation of their benefactors leaps to the eye. There are more puffin and perhaps more shear- Water on Skomer than there have ever been. There are many more gannet on Grassholm and, I should say, that many more seals sport in the bays and eaves and inlets of Grassholm and perhaps also of Ramsey. The spectacle is so heartening, eo wonderful that one must hope that the beneficent owners Will one day see to it that the cause they have championed will be secured in perpetuity. Some birds, of course, are in multitude, such as guillemot, puffin, razor bill, oyster-catcher and herring-gull ; but some are very rare. It was a treat, and a very rare one, to see on one of these islands the choughs flying above the cliffs where they have successfully nested close beside the peregrine falcons. Such a sight may now become common, though perhaps for the chough the jackdaw Is a worse enemy than egg-collecting man.
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