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February.- In llic lirst week of this month the cock 

 Chadinches were in lull xtng, as also the Song Thrushes. On 

 the 7th a pair of Starlings wci'c Imsy getting ready a favoui'ite 

 nesting hole high up an old elm. They seemed to l)e throwing 

 out hits of the old nest. By the end of the month each nest- 

 ing h()\ in the garden was in possession of a pair of Starl- 

 ings. Several Hocks of I^rent Geese have been seen feeding 

 on the shore here all this month, some of the flocks consisting 

 of al)0ut one hundred birds. A Shelduck, mirked with a j'ing 

 as a ■■ llappcr " m the summer oi' 1912 was shot at Saltash in 

 Cornwall on tlu- lOtli of February thi-; year. On the same 

 cfay af G a.m. a Song Thrush was found dying at the St. 

 CallH'i-iiu'"s Li{,dith()use, which was jninni to be. fnnii ilic num- 

 bered ring on one leg, one marked near here on the 25th of 

 April, 1912, as a nestling. The lighthouse keeper reported 

 that an immigration from the south, of Thrushes, had been 

 going on for three days before, and so it seems very likely 

 that this Thrush was coming back to the neighbourhood of its 

 birth: St. Catherine's light being about 20 miles due south of 

 this village. These and other birds, which have since been 

 " reported " were marked with aluminium rings, supplied by 

 the Aberdeen University Bird Migration Inquiry. 



P.G. (Beaulieu).3/3/'13. 



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