140 FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



vermin, and the amount of weeds and pests 

 destroyed by 500 hungry little birds is incal- 

 culable. 



June 3 Two nests with full clutches on this date at 

 Canford. 



June 30 A family observed at Hay moor Bottom, Poole, 

 feeding on Tortrix viridana. (E.H.C.) 



July 15 Saw a Fringilla coelebs hunt a Camptogramma 

 bilineata out of the hedge at Broadstone and 

 capture it. (W.P.C.) 



(8) Fringilla montifringilla The Branibling. 



Jan 23 Six Bramblings were seen on the north side of 

 Berewood. 



(9) Acanthis linaria cabaret. The Lesser Redpoll. 



Jan. 1 During a gale of wind from W. and showers of 

 rain, on Broadstone Golf Links, about 12 seen 

 feeding in the birch trees against the fourth 

 tee. They were very tame. 



Mai 1 . 25 About 12 seen at the same place as on Jan. 1. 



Oct. 21 At Cockwood, Canford, E.H.C. noted a flock 

 of 40 or so flying round overhead. He sat 

 down to watch. The flock wheeled round for 

 a time calling " twee twee " to one another as 

 they flew. As they approached the tree where 

 E.H.C. was seated he noticed in the top of the 

 birch a few birds who called " haree haree " 

 like a canary bird. The whole flock literally 

 dropped on to the upper branches of the birch, 

 where they really became very inconspicuous, 

 so much so that had he looked casually at the 

 tree he would not have thought there were more 

 than a dozen or so there, whereas there were 

 four times that number. When a stray Red- 

 poll flew over, and several did, the call birds 



