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counted them all.
The pup were either near the water or swimming in it & only a small proportion being on the hillside. The cows are out in great numbers.
The whole appearance of the rookery is broken and confused - 
The great wedges of cows [[strikethrough]] have [[/strikethrough]] at the north end of the rookery have gone entirely but there is still one considerable bunch there.
One thing that puzzed me was the composition of some of the upper harems. These were presided over by youngish bulls & were made up of both cows and bachelors. There were certainly both males &

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females in these groups, but no pups - The presiding bull snapped & roared at the cows as usual but did not appear to have very good control of them & stopped now & then to chase a bachelor off. It looked as if the "half -bulls" were playing at holding harems & [[strikethrough]] no [[/strikethrough]] were not sufficiently in earnest of keep  out the bachelors.
The family mentioned above was such a one. D.W.P. were almost near enough to touch some of it members & decided that part were males & part females. There was one pup in this lot when I first saw it-
The absence of cows is [[strikethrough]] one of the [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] the [[/underlined]] striking feature now.