NOTES. 77 



GEEEN WOODPECKER IN WESTMORLAND. 



On May 12th, 1906, I saw a Green Woodpecker {Gecinus 

 viridis) near Windermere. The bird evidently did not 

 breed in the vicinity, for there v/as never any further sign 

 of it. There are not half-a-dozen records of the occurrence 

 of this species in the county. Eric B. Dunlop. 



[For a recent record c/. supra, p. 25.] 



BARN-OWLS OCCUPYING A JACKDAW'S NEST. 

 On May 12th, 1911, about 6 p.m., with the help of a ladder 

 I got up to a hole in an old ash tree, which I suspected of 

 being utihzed by a Barn-Owl. When getting the ladder into 

 position a Barn-Owl came out, and when I chmbed about half 

 way up the ladder, another Barn-Owl flew from the same 

 hole. On reaching the hole I found it was not a large one — 

 in fact, it must have been close quarters for the two Owls. 

 At the bottom of the hole, which went downwards about 

 two feet, there was a Jackdaw's nest with three eggs. The 

 eggs were quite fresh and in no way injured by the two Owls, 

 though how they managed to stand in the very limited space 

 without breaking the eggs was puzzhng. 



C. E. Stracey Clitherow. 



THE RESULTS OF '• RINGING " COMMON HERONS 



IN DENMARK. 



In the April number of the Dansh. Ornith. : Forenings, 

 Tidsskrijt (1911 pp. 115-119), Mr. Chr. Mortensen gives an 

 interesting account of the results of " ringing " a number of 

 Common Herons {Ardea cinerea). A Heronry at Lyngby 

 Wood, near Frederiksvserk, Zeeland, East Denmark, was 

 visited on May loth and 17th, 1910, by Messrs. Rendtorff, 

 Saxtorph, and Begtrup, and 55 young birds were ringed. In 

 the course of the next ten months 13 out of the 55 had 

 been reported to Mr. Mortensen. The following list shows 

 the dates and places of re-capture : — 



a. June 26th, 1910. Westerwohld, near Nordhastedt, 



Holstein. 



b. July 2nd, 1910. Everstorf, near Grevesmiihlen, 



Mecklenburg. 

 k, October 17th, 1910. Amesbury Abbey, near Salisbury, 



England, 

 m. February, 1911. Between Landivisiau and Sizun 



(east of Brest), north-west France. 



These four all came from tlie same nest. 



