CRAP Thiet 
A LONG DAY > WITH THE BIRDS IN THE NORTE 
OF KENT, BY THE* RIVER THAMES—_thths 
WEEK IN MAY 
KENT is called the Garden of England, and 
indeed in the month of May especially it 
well merits the name. Gardens then are 
even its waysides, and needing no touch of 
the hand of man. But it is a noted bird- 
land too, not only in May but throughout 
the summer, as its shores which are only some 
twenty miles from the French coast across 
the English Channel are the first haven that 
the feathered immigrants make, when, after 
winter, softer winds blow from the south-east 
and south, and urge them on their way. Ted 
and I were fortunate to be able to spend some 
hours there this month, when all nature was 
in its best trim, and the newly arrived birds 
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