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alert. I espied one at a distance of about a quarter of a mile, as I surveyed 

 the moor from behind a wall, but my actions ill only showing my head and 

 shoulders seemed to have made the Grouse more than usually suspicious, 

 and the one I saw stretched out his neck to see all he could, and as I 

 walked straight towards him he settled the matter by disappearing alto- 

 gether. It was not till I had reached the spot where he had disappeared 

 that he showed himself again, and then I flushed him from a watercourse 

 cut narrow and rather deep, that traversed the moor, and he flew away 

 scolding. Knowing that all the Grouse within hearing would now be 

 alarmed I turned my attention to the other birds, and studied the Pipits 

 which soared and then sang as they descended. A Snipe, probably my 

 friend of the Monday, came over from a slight hill and drummed round me 

 and then settled. He let me approach to thirty-five paces distance before 

 he flew away. A Raven passing over at a considerable height and a flock of 

 fifty-eight Peewits flying at one level, concluded my morning's observations. 

 The afternoon looked as if it were going to turn to thunder, but faired np 

 instead. I bent my steps southwards towards a detached piece of moorland 

 and passed a group of several Peewits standing on some knolls, with a 

 Curlew perched on the top of a rise, quietly preening. Before getting over 

 the wall which enclosed the moor I heard a Snipe drumming, and saw two 

 on the wing at once, the birds often being close enough together, 

 (apparently) for both to be in the " field " of the binocular at once. These 

 birds continued flying and drumming a considerable time — half-ait-hour 

 or so. 



On the Friday I again had occasion to wander into the low ground to 

 the south, and before going far heard a cry from the tract where both Curlews 

 and Peewits were common, which I knew did not proceed from a bird of 

 either species. I soon saw the bird that made it— a Redshank— the first I 

 had met with in this country. It perched on a wall and piped for several 

 minutes until disturbed by my passing near it. Further on I saw some 

 Blue Tits amongst Scotch Firs at the end of a plantation. I had already 

 noticed the absence of Tits of all species, and I met with few others during 

 my stay. A Whinchat showed itself in an Ash tree and soon after, while 

 scanning the pastures, an adult Cuckoo flew into the field of the binocular 

 and enabled me to keep it in sight for three hundred yards or more. At 

 midnight I heard the Corn Crake again. 



I spent the last day of the week in going up the highest hill in the 

 neighbourhood (Cross Fell, 2,930 feet). On my way over the moor I saw a 

 Redshank perched on the wall over which I had watched the Grouse. 

 Peewits were seen and heard at the top of the first rise, on a shoulder about 

 1,500 feet altitude, and near by, Rooks. No other birds were seen as we 

 went up the exposed slopes of the mountain and none while we traversed 

 the plateau at the top, but on reaching a spring a little beyond the plateau 

 I was not a little surprised to find a large party of Swifts— thirty or forty. 



