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first half of the month was at Spurn Head Light on the 3rd/4th, though 

 there -were records of small numbers from Spurn Head and Cromer 

 Lights and the Kentish Knock Light-vessel, while at Lowestoft 

 (Suffolk) birds were observed going N. and N.E. on the 12th and 13th. 

 Between the 15th/16th and 25th/26th there were no records, but from 

 the latter date till the 9th/10th of April extensive movements were 

 reported from many stations on the east coast between Whitby Light 

 (Yorkshire) and the Kentish Knock Light-vessel, the greatest influxes 

 occurring at Spurn Head Light on the 27th/28th and 30th/31st of March 

 and the 8th/9th and lOth/llth of April, at Withernsea Light (York- 

 shire) ou the 27th/28th and 30th/31st of March, and at Cromer Light on 

 the 9th/10th of April. In the daytime large flocks were observed at 

 Havering (Essex), flying W. on the 26th, 27th and 28th of March ; 

 numbers were observed at Winterton Light on the 29th, and at Cromer 

 flocks were moving E on the 30th of March and N.W. on the 2nd of 

 April, while a few birds were noted flying S.W. at the Kentish Knock 

 Light-vessel on the 31st of March, and at the Dudgeon Light-vessel 

 (Norfolk) on the 1st of April. A few Starlings were observed off the 

 Dutch coast on the 1st of April, and the last migrants on the east coast 

 were three stragglers seen flying N. at Lowestoft on the 22nd of April. 



On the south coast no records were received from the east of St. 

 Catherine's Light (Hampshire). On the 5th/6th of February there was 

 an influx at the Eddystone Light and on the 12th/13that St. Catherine's, 

 while during the first half of the month flocks were passing the Caskets 

 Light (Channel Islands) at intervals and single birds were seen at 

 Hanois Light (Channel Islands). After that there was an absence of 

 records till the end of the month, when considerable numbers were again 

 reported from the Caskets, from Hurst Light (Hampshire) and St. 

 Catherine's Light, and a few from Hanois Light. This movement con- 

 tinued till the middle of March and was most marked at Hurst Light on 

 the 2nd3rd, and at the Eddystone and St. Catherine's Lights on the 

 5th/Gth. After the middle of March no further migration was observed 

 till early in April, when a few birds were again noticed passing the 

 Caskets; on the 8th, 9th and lOth/llth there was an influx at St. 

 Catherine's, and a few odd birds were noted at Hanois Light on the 

 8th/9th and at the Eddystone Light on the 12th/13th. 



From the west coast no records were received during January, with 

 the exception of a few birds at the North Welsh lights at the middle 

 and end of the month. In the early part of February a few flocks 

 were moving along the coasts of Lancashire and North Wales, and between 

 the 12th/ 13th and 15th/13th migration was still more marked in the same 

 localities. After the latter date there were no records until the end of 

 the month, when a vast influx was noticed at all the North Welsh lights, 

 more particularly at Bardsey Light (Carnarvonshire) on the 26th /27th 

 and 27th/28th. From the 28th of February to the 17th of March small 



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