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Lapwings, Snipe, and Woodcock ; Golden Plover are 

 recorded from the lanterns at Pladda and Little Ross, and 

 Knots and Redshanks from the latter place. Thereafter the 

 weather became milder and nothing worthy of note is 

 reported till the end of the month. 



February. 



With a rise in temperature and mild weather for the 

 season there were returns to breeding-places of Golden 

 Plover, Lapwings, Curlew, and Shelduck, in the first half of 

 February. A well-marked TiirdincE and Wader movement 

 took place, and a good many Little Auks are recorded 

 during this period. During the second half the same move- 

 ments continued in a lesser degree, this diminution being 

 probably due to the unsettled weather conditions which 

 prevailed in the last fortnight of February. 



March. 



In the first fortnight of March the winds were chiefly 

 easterly and the temperature low ; during this period 

 Turdhuv, Starlings, Skylarks, and Wader were still on the 

 move. Pied Wagtails were returning to nesting-places. 

 Swans were moving, and a White Wagtail, evidence of 

 passage migration, appeared on the 15th, With unsettled 

 weather and very variable temperature the second fortnight 

 shows more returns to nesting-places, movements of Duck, 

 and arrivals of a few summer visitors. 



April. 



With changeable weather and variable winds migration 

 in April followed a very normal course ; summer visitors were 

 arriving in increasing numbers, winter visitors departing 

 steadily, while a little passage migration is recorded. 



May. 



During the first half of May there was a large arrival of 

 summer visitors ; the period of maximum movement was 

 from the 3rd to the 12th, during which time the wind was, 

 91 AND 92 O 



