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I'm not a naturalist, so I couldn't tell you what variety of duck this beautiful bird is, but a whole flock of them were sitting on the turf just inside the gates of Oronsay Priory, pecking at the ground. It looked for all the world as if they were grazing on the grass like cattle.
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