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British Bird Calendar. 



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ultimate success and permanent interest of the Calendar will depend.— 



Ed. 



April 28— Oil this day one pair of our ruguLir visitors (Martins) reappeared 

 and on 

 „ 29 - the second pair turned up, l)ut it was not till 

 ]\Iay 9— that the third pair arrived. Now every morning I pass the three 

 nests built by the above trio. Last year the first pair stayed with 

 us till the end of October, the second and thnd pairs left for 

 more hospitable climes about the middle of October. Martins 

 seem far more plentiful than they were last year, at least two 

 nests being occupied for the Hrst time for two or three years. 

 9_I saw my first Swifts to day. 

 24 — During a country walk saw and heard several Whitethroats, also 

 young of Starlings, Hedge-Sparrows, and Yellow-Hammers. 



H. M., Luton, Beds. 

 l_Pair of Greater Whitethroats, Hazeleigh. 



7 Redstart i cT ) at Hazeleigh ; another seen at Danbury on May 23rd. 



This species is always scarce here 

 „ 18— Lesser White throat (a pair,) Hazeleigh . 



23 — Spotted Flycatcher at Hazeleigh, another single specimen seen on 

 the 23rd. I suppose the cocks arrive before the hens, as in the 

 case with Nightingales. It is so with many of our other 



migrants '? 



0. H. R., Hazeleigh, Essex, May 27, 1913 



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