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Four eggs (about 4 of the hens now broody). Saw a stork standing among the ibises the other day. It is enormous – English heron would look small beside it. Greenfinch evidently exists here as well as the goldfinch, both … Continue reading

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9.12.38

Two eggs. Notice that ibises always collect round a man digging & are very tame then. Presumably after worms etc. They did not do this in Burma. Probably there is next to no food in the streams here.

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September 14, 1938, Marrakech

Birds seen on railway journey Tangier-Casablanca-Marrakech. Ibis extremely numerous, Kestrels fairly common & also two larger kinds of hawk or kite, a few solitary crows very similar to the English bird. No storks, tho’ said to exist here. A very … Continue reading

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