24 EARLY “SPRING: 
put us into good spirits too, and we could not 
but share their feelings. Of the ordmary 
migrants, such as the Cuckoo, the cuckoo’s 
mate (the Wryneck 1), the Sedge- and Reed- 
Warblers, the Flycatcher, and the like, there 
were none yet. Nor had the Swallows and 
House-Martins arrived. But the may was just 
showing in the green, whilst elders were still 
more advanced. The points of the sedges, 
just visible above the water where it was 
shallow, told that there would soon be waving 
banks of them there. And so we knew that 
our little bird visitors would shortly arrive. 
We found the remains of several nests 
plainly visible in some as yet leafless shrubs ; 
they had escaped us when all was in leafy 
ereen the previous year. I photographed 
one of them—that of a Sedge- (or Garden-) 
Warbler. It was still in very good con- 
dition, and shows how cleverly and strongly 
the little artificers had ~constructed 11, “by 
1 The  wryneck. has> been “described. im Pare 
Plate VIII shows a hole in an apple tree in which a pair 
of wrynecks nested for several years in succession. 
