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this wood, as they did last year ; but I saw one close 

 by. In the wood itself I found a Crow's nest with 

 four rather pale-coloured eggs, and saw a pair of 

 Tawny Owls. Then on past the G. rocks, where the 

 Buzzards bred last season, and turned short up the 

 C. valley close by, where I immediately viewed a 

 Buzzard soaring grandly over some big rocks. There 

 was a nest here, for when about a hundred yards 

 from the rocks in question the female left them, 

 revealing the secret ; but through marking the spot 

 inaccurately I lost some time before finding it. It 

 contained three eggs, very similar in appearance 

 to those I found in the G. rocks last year, and 

 were undoubtedly the produce of the same pair of 

 birds ; for as the Buzzard would fly, the distance 

 between the two eyries could not have been more 

 than three hundred yards, and the old eyrie was not 

 tenanted. A Raven flapped leisurely up the valley, 

 barking as it flew no doubt on its way to a nest, 

 and then I cut across the moors to N., where the Kites 

 attempted to breed last year ; but they are not here 

 now, worse luck ! The only thing here was a Mag- 

 ' pie's nest, up a very tall larch, containing half a dozen 

 eggs. A little further on was a Buzzard's eyrie in an 

 oak, the same that we examined in March. It now 

 contained a couple of eggs. One of the Buzzards 

 was wheeling above me sorely agitated. Then right 

 away to a small wood close to T. wood, where in 

 some rocks was yet another Buzzard's eyrie with 

 two eggs. 



April 2^th. I walked into the town and was much 

 interested in the antics of a Lapwing which was 



