158 FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



8.5 female came to nest, but did not stay, as the 

 blackbirds were still scolding. 

 8.10 the commotion having subsided, male fed 

 young. 



8.25 female fed young. 

 8.27 male fed young. 

 8.32 male fed young. 

 8.40 female fed young. 



The young make a noise when fed precisely 

 like that made by young robins. 

 The parents are Very active little birds, and 

 anything less than an instantaneous exposure 

 is useless. They are charming little birds and 

 are never still ; if no other part moves, the tail 

 nearly always does so. It is raised and closed, 

 and thereafter depressed and spread fanwise, 

 the two movements being coincident. The 

 food they brought was all small insects, and as 

 far as I could see only once a small micro of 

 the species that haunts furze bushes (? Catoplria 

 ulicetana. W.P.C.) (E.H.C.) 



May 18 E.H.C. again visited the nest and started 

 observations at 7.45, but was just in time for 

 the departure of the young birds from the 

 nest. They made their way through the tops 

 of the heather, but did not go far from the 

 nest .up to the time E.H.C. had to leave. 

 (E.H.C.) 



(43) Oenanthe oenanthe. The Wheatear. 

 Arrival. 



Mar. 22 One seen between Poole and Hamworthy and 

 a fine male seen in the green field close to 

 Peveril Point, Swanage. (F.G.P.) 



May 7 A pair at Canford Bottom (the pair did not 

 stop there to breed). (W.P.C.) 



