...hundred and fifty yards from the shore, there rose from the deep water, a solitary rock, about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf or truncated...* * The female Osprey allowed our boat to approach within two hundred yards or so, and then leaving her nest, sailed onwards with a circling flight, till...

...a hundred and fifty yards from the shore, there rose from the deep water a solitary rock, about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf or truncated...accumulation of many breeding seasons, as the Osprey returns fear after year to the same nest. How this heap of sticks withstood the winter gales without being...

...About a hundred and fifty yards from the shore there rose from the deep water a solitary rock about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf, or truncated...without being blown at once into the water, puzzled me. In a crevice of the rock was a small tuft or two of green, otherwise it was perfectly bare and steep....

...yards from the shore there rose from the deep water a solitary rock about ten feet high, shaped liked a broken sugar-loaf, or truncated cone ; on the summit...without being blown at once into the water, puzzled me. In a crevice of the rock was a small tuft or two of green, otherwise it was perfectly bare and steep....

...About a hundred and fifty yards from the shore there rose from the deep water a solitary rock about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf, or truncated...without being blown at once into the water, puzzled me. In a crevice of the rock was a small tuft or two of green, otherwise it was perfectly bare and steep....

...a hundred and fifty yards from the shore, there rose from the deep water a solitary rock, about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf or truncated cone. On the summit of tLis was the nest, a pile of sticks of very great depth, evidently the accumulation of many breeding...