R help - Jan 2012 - add1 GLM - Warning message, what does it mean?

Hi All, I am wondering if anyone can tell me what the warning message below
the model means? 

J

add1(DTA.glm,~ Aeventexhumed + Veg + Berm + HTL + Estuary + Rayos)
Single term additions

Model:
cbind(MaxHatch, TotalEggs - MaxHatch) ~ Aeventexhumed + Veg + 
    Berm + HTL
        Df Deviance    AIC
<none>       488.86 4232.9
Estuary  1   454.96 4201.0
Rayos    3   258.80 4008.9
Warning messages:
1: In model.matrix.default(Terms, m, contrasts.arg = object$contrasts) :
  variable 'Rayos' converted to a factor
2: In add1.glm(DTA.glm, ~Aeventexhumed + Veg + Berm + HTL + Estuary +  :
  using the 17/83 rows from a combined fit

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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Jhope wrote:
> Hi All, I am wondering if anyone can tell me what the warning message below
> the model means?
Which one?: there are two warnings!

1) most likely indicates that Rayos is a character variable.

2) indicates that you have missing values in the variables you are 
trying to add, and so the fits were done on the cases which are 
complete for all the variables included and the AICs are not 
comparable.

Had we had the 'commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code' 
we asked you for, this would have been much clearer.
>
> J
>
> add1(DTA.glm,~ Aeventexhumed + Veg + Berm + HTL + Estuary + Rayos)
> Single term additions
>
> Model:
> cbind(MaxHatch, TotalEggs - MaxHatch) ~ Aeventexhumed + Veg +
>    Berm + HTL
>        Df Deviance    AIC
> <none>       488.86 4232.9
> Estuary  1   454.96 4201.0
> Rayos    3   258.80 4008.9
> Warning messages:
> 1: In model.matrix.default(Terms, m, contrasts.arg = object$contrasts) :
>  variable 'Rayos' converted to a factor
> 2: In add1.glm(DTA.glm, ~Aeventexhumed + Veg + Berm + HTL + Estuary +  :
>  using the 17/83 rows from a combined fit
>
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Thank you Prof Ripley, I understand and changed Rayos into a factor. 

Can someone please tell me how to change the: 

Model: 
> cbind(MaxHatch, TotalEggs - MaxHatch) ~ Aeventexhumed + Veg + 
>    Berm + HTL 
Into a model that has?: 

Model:
cbind(MaxHatch, TotalEggs - MaxHatch) ~ 1

Best, J

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