Bri/ish Bird Calendar. 23)) 



went to town on May 2.Slh, and returned on June Hrd, and I 

 have never heard him since. I have noticed the hist few years 

 he has coninienced later and later, and left off earlier and earlier 

 and I wonder if any one else has observed this. Twice iti my 

 life I have heard him on April Gth, and that is the earliest, this 

 year 1 did not hear him till April 20th. In an old pocket hook 

 I came across the other day was the entry.- "July 3rd, Cuckoo 

 came to bid me goodbye." I do not think I ever heard him la^er 

 than that, but for years past now, not at all during the last fort- 

 night in June even. 

 Report for the three months ending June .'JUtli. from the North IJnst. 

 Lighthouse : 



April 1—1 Robin and Hock of Starlings 

 „ 2 — 1 Redwing and 1 Chaffinch. 

 „ 4- First Great Skua for season. 



., 18— Razorbills and Guillemot's on Cliffs, also 4 Sparrows. 

 „ 19— Puffins landed on Rock. 

 „ 10 — 1 Blackbird (female) a rare risl/ar here. 

 „ 19—1 Richardson's Skua. 

 „ 24—1 Wheatear. 



24—2 Lesser-backed Gulls. 

 „ 20—1 Glaucous Gull. 

 May 4—1 Swallow and 2 Wheatears. 

 „ 4-2 Common Gulls. 



9-1 Redstart (male) seen till 12tli 

 „ 11—1 Robin and 2 Whimbrel. 

 „ 13—1 Coijimon Sandpiper. 

 „ 16— Fulmer commenced incubation. 

 „ 17—1 Swallow. 

 „ 18 — 6 Turnstones. 

 „ 18-Pipers, 



„ 18 — Kittiwakes commenced building. 



„ 18— Great Black-back Gulls nest with three eggs (first for season). 

 „ 20-1 Whimbrel and 1 Wheatear. 

 22 -1 Swallow. 



25 - Oystorcatchers nest with 1 egg. 

 June 14— Chaffinches. 



PerD.E.P., JulvGth, 1913. 



Erratum: In May issue of " B.N.," a similar report 

 was given, into wliich crept an uniortunate error: "North 

 Hist Lighthouse," should read North Unst Lighthouse. 



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