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There seems to have been no large immigration of Wood- 
pigeons on the N.E. Lincolnshire coast this winter.” 
A Barred Warbler, S. nisoria, is reported as captured at 
Cleethorpes on September 2nd during a light east wind. 
On November 13th an immature Spoonbill, P. leucorodia, 
was shot at the mouth of the River Welland. It may here be 
mentioned that a stuffed example of this species has just been 
presented to the Lincoln Museum by Canon Bell. This was 
set up by Clayton, of Louth, in 1860, and was shot at N. 
Somercotes. It is probably the example mentioned in Cordeaux’s 
‘“« Birds of the Humber District,” p. 107. 
A Black-headed Gull, L.. vidibundus, marked as a nestling at 
the Scawby gullery on May 2gth, 1910, was recovered at Denbigh, 
N. Wales, on December 2nd, 1g1t. 
The following are some of the most important of my own 
notes from my district (Doddington) :— 
January 25th, 1911. Thousands of Woodpigeons. 
January 27th. More than 100 Gulls, L. canus, on ploughed 
land. 
February 12th and 15th. Kingfishers seen on brooks and 
ponds. 
Early in April some Woodcocks were flushed in the woods 
but no nests were found. 
About 20 pairs of Herons were nesting in the Skellingthorpe 
Big Wood. 
A pair or two of Greater Spotted Woodpeckers, Nightjars 
and Long-eared Owls breed in the large woods and a few pairs of 
Wood Wrens, P. stbilatvix, but this latter species is scarce in the 
district. 
Goldfinches increasing, Garden Warblers decidedly more 
numérous than Blackcaps, Hawfinches a nuisance among 
gréen peas. 
