Identifier: birdsofyorkshire02nels (find matches)
Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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t any signs of a nest, thoughduring the summer months since the year 1904, two pairs ofold birds passed Redcar daily, going to and from the Tees-mouth, where they obtain food for their young, and I amof opinion that they were nesting at Boulby. The bulk of theKettleness Cormorants have evidently gone still furthersouth, and about thirty or forty pairs now nest near the WhitbyHigh Lights, two miles from that town. When they bredat Boulby and Kettleness, long strings, sometimes numberingfrom twenty to thirty individuals, might be observed passingRedcar regularly in the early morning to fish in the Teesestuary, returning to the cliffs in the afternoon, and some* • At Staithes a humoroui story is related that, on the morningfollowing the episode of the tar barrel, an old fisherman was on thebeach near Lintie Cock Stone, and heard two Cormorants conversing.One said to his companion, Whats thou think o that performancelast neet ? Why, replied the other, Ahm gaine tae flit fraethis place I
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CORMORANT. 377 times I have watched these birds taking a short cutbehind the town. At Peak, on the north of Scarborough, a colony of somefifty pairs was in existence before the railway was opened,but they decreased in numbers afterwards. Several yearsago a Scarborough man shot eighteen out of twenty nestingbirds with a rifle ; the following year none were noted, buta few pairs have since returned. Between Scarborough andFiley several pairs find nesting places ; Mr. Thomas Carterin 1884 observed Cormorants there, and was told by a fishermanthat he had seen a nest and three eggs at Scout Nab (Zool.1884, p. 446). I am informed by Mr. J. Fountain of Fileythat he had a clutch of five eggs brought to him in the year1902 ; in igo6 there were eight nests. Concerning its connection with Flamborough, Pennantsremarks are quoted above. The Cormorant used to be afamiliar object near the Headland until the sixties, butthere again senseless persecution has banished it as a nestingspecies. The breedi

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