•V2S British Bird Caleyidar. 



British Bird Calendar. 



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Sept. 12 - Our simmer visitoi-.s arc now giMiliially thinning ; the Warblers 

 arc l)ul sehlom soon in the garden. Wheatears {S.i.virohi 

 upiiniitlir) are still fairly iiiunei'ous. and Pied Wagtails (MolacUhi 

 //^ /// /;;-,■>•) are pie it: fill S.nill p irties of hen Chaffinches {Fr'ni- 

 (/illii fO'h'h.) ar.-ived t )-d:iy, and another party on the 17th. 



Sept. 20 —A large flouk of Cook Chnffinches arrived, the sexes do not 

 appear lo travel together. 



Sept. 2G— Waders are now very nnnicrous. I saw the first flock of 

 Knots {TriiKja (■luiiifiin) to-day. Herring Onlls {Larins iiiypnf- 

 atiifi) are very plentiful, but the Black-backed (L. murhuii^) 

 are very scarce so far and those with us are immature birds. 



Rapt. 29—1 have not noticed anj- movement of Ducks, but saw four 

 Swans this morning travelling, with their usual, slow, laborious 

 movement, in a Southerly direction. 



R. S., Cleethorpes. 29-9-13. 



Sept. 30 -While the cheerful '' tipink, Hp'nih'' of the Chaffinch is ever with 

 us. still the birds are not numerous in the garden during the 

 summer months, the family party, pai-ents and young -these 

 are a garden familj^ young reared here, but on the 30th there 

 was quite an influx of cocks, and they are still here, often a 

 dozen or more foraging on the lawn together. With the rearing 

 of the last brood connubial bliss is at an end, that is as soon as 

 the young are able to look after themselves, for the sexes sep- 

 arate, and are no more seen together till mating time comes round 

 again. Have not seen a Willow Warliler or a Chiff-chaff since 

 the 2r.th. 



\V. T P.. :\Iitcham.3lMt 13. 



Sept. 23-:')0 This note is (nui]>ilod from a cutting from the Simrhtnl, 

 27, ix., 13, kindly sent by the Rev O. H. Raynor. Moirhnix 

 XcxI (iiifl lirreil in a Lomlnn Sfrpi'f : In Shepherd's Bush, at 

 the junction of Askew and (ioldhawk Hoads, there is a small 

 piece of fenced watoi' (it used to be open, and was then known 

 Starch (Ireen Pond', it has an islet in the middle which is over- 

 grown with ivy, and contains a dozen small bushes. Here, amid 

 the roar of electric trams, combined with oidinary traffic, with a 

 large puldic house and a cinema theatre oidy tlio road's Avidth 

 from them, a ]>air of Moorhens ((utlliiiiilii i-lihiniiuis) h.nc for 

 the past two years at least nested twice in e;ic)i season. The biids 

 :uv vory t in.e an,l faniilia- and ha.o subsisted o„ tju. natural food 

 thuir feiK-od gaid.ii and oiaiamental water provides, .and bread. 



