Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on June 01, 2010 at 03:34:01 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: The time of year in posted by Robert Hill on May 31, 2010 at 11:03:30:
I am very tempted by the idea of a Whitsun holiday; the timing looks plausible, given that Divers incubate for over three weeks (we don't know how long they had been sitting!) and Easter might have been early. I see that the British Trust for Ornithology website shows a sucessful nest in Wester Ross in 1970 - the ornithological background to the book is sound.