4<^ 1 he Oologists' Record, June i, 1922. 



nest buill right against the house wall ; first in a clematis, then in a 

 pear, and now in a rose bush, trained on the wall. 



Willow Warblers we have every year, and though we do not 

 get the Chiffchaff in the garden^not having enough rough tangle 

 for it — we have them just outside, and to-day, almost when writing 

 these notes, we heard a cock Wood Warbler's joyous song in the 

 gai'den. We arc hoping he and his mate will stay. A Blackcap, 

 too, has been singing there this week, but m'c think the nest is just 

 outside the fence. 



Robins and Hedge-Sparrows nest every year, and occasionally 

 we get Wrens, and once a Garden Warbler. There are Greenfinches 

 and Bullfinches nesting closeby, and we think that when our birches 

 are dense enough we may have them actually in the garden. 



Every evening, lately, we have heard Nightingales and Nightjars 

 from two sides, and we are never without the call of the Cuckoo in 

 the Spring and early Summer. Quite often we get the gurgling 

 note of the female, but I have yet to learn the particular species 

 niost victimised by the ("uckoos here. Just below the house is a 

 " rough," half grass, half wood, where Tree Pipits successfully 

 conceal their nests from sight. Perhaps the Cuckoos find them. 



We have no Woodpeckers nesting in the garden- — the trees 

 arc all sound ; but the call of the Green Woodi)ecker is heard almost 

 daily, and the Greater Sjiotted often heard, but seldom seen. No 

 doubt if boxes were provided for tliem they would prefer the sites 

 they can excavate for themseh'cs at a safer distance from the ground. 

 Jays we do not like, for they play havoc with the garden peas. Last 

 year there was a Sparrow Hawk's nest in a tall pine behind the 

 kitchen garden, but this we did not " attract." 



By the way, we noticed this year that a hole we had scraped 

 in a bank, ready for l^obins, was greotly enlarged by them before 

 the nest was made. This nest got full of drifted snow ; so early 

 was it made, or so late did it snow, that it was ahandoned : and we 

 are ashamed to say Ihat the terrier scratched out a nest further 

 down the 1)aiik, made, doubthss, h\ tlie same bird. 



K. I. S. 



Harrison & Suns, I.lJ., Ptinu'V.s in OiUiiiary to His AUiiesty, St. Martin's Lane, W.C. 2. 



