158 CATALOGUE OP THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



particularly at Breydon (Paget, Stevenson, G. C. Davies), 

 on Fritton Broad (C. B.), about Aldeburgn (Hele, Tuck), 

 at Great Bealings (Moor MS.), on the Orwell (C. 13.), about 

 Shotley (Kerry), at Bramford (Ha ward), at Oakley (W. 

 Clarke), at Sudbury (King), and formerly at Mildenhall 

 (Sir C Bunbury). Heronries exist, or lately have existed, 

 at Barsham Old Hall (W. M. Crowfoot in lilt.), at Henham 

 Hall, at Blackheath near Friston, which is probably one of 

 the largest in England, containing, in 1871, perhaps about 

 two hundred nests scattered over a large wood of Scotch firs, 

 overlooking the river Aide (Harting in Z. 2nd S. 3265, 

 J. H. Gurney, sen., in Z. 2nd S. 3315); on the right hand 

 of the Blythe, between Blythburgh and Walberswick, in a 

 clump of tall firs (Harting u. s. 3406) ; at Orwell Park* 

 (Harting u. s.); and oa a small scale at Cavenham (Harting 

 u, s. 3265, and A. Newton v. v.). The Barsham Heronry 

 was formerly at Herringfleet,']* where the keepers recently 

 destroyed the young birds, so that the old ones forsook the 

 place (W. M. Crowfoot in litt., Col. Leathes in lilt.); that 

 at Orwell Park came in 1871 from Woolverstone Park 

 (Harting u. s. 3406). Nests have also been found at Boxted 

 Hall (W. K. Bevan); in the park at Redgrave (Holt Wilson), 

 and about 1835, it is said, at Cockfield (Bligh v.v. ; see my 

 Materials for a Hist, of Cockfield in Proc. Suff. Inst. v. 213). 



* The Rev. F. B. Zincke gives the keepers shot a Heron with a brass plate 

 following interesting account of the Orwell on its leg, which gave the information 

 Heronry. " In the reign of Elizabeth the that it had come from a certain Heronry- 

 burgesses of Ipswich lodged a complaint in Lincolnshire. The brass plate he 

 against the then owner of this Heronry, returned to the gentleman who owned the 

 that his Herons destroyed their fish. The Heronry, who replied that he was not 

 Queen in Couni il issued an order for the surprised that one of his Herons should 

 destruction of the Heronry. It has, be shot on the Orwell, for not long pre- 

 however, survived this order, which cer- viously one had been shot on the Danube 

 tainly no lover of birds, perhaps few not far from Vienna." — (F. B. Zincke in 

 lovers of fish, will regret. The Heronry Suffolk Chronicle, May 31, 1884). 

 at Orwell Park is an interesting sight. 



. . . . One may note the caution of f Mr. F. Frere, on a recent visit to the 



the Herons in placing their nests only in Fritton (Herringneet) Heronry, was in- 



trees that, by being situated in a valley, formed by the keeper that the birds lay a 



are very much protected from the wind. first clutch of eggs, which take three 



A gale would be too much for so large a weeks to hatch ; after about a fortnight 



bird on so large a nest in an exposed they lay as many more, which are hatched 



position Some thirty years off with the young birds in the nest. 



ago one of the late Archdeacon Berners' (Stev. B. of N. ii., 139, note). 



