LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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SPRING: SHOVELERS AND BEARDED TIT . . Frontispiece 



WINTER: HOODED CROWS AND OYSTER-CATCHER . 14 



SUMMER THE FRINGE OF THE SHORE : RINGED PLOVER 



AND COMMON TERN ..... 32 



SMACK PUTTING UP COMMON AND VELVET SCOTERS . 56 



THE WILDFOWLS' TOILET: WIGEON, PINTAIL, GOLDEN- 

 EYE, TEAL ...... 90 



THE STRICKEN MALLARD: PEREGRINE FALCON AND 



WILD DUCK ...... 98 



EVENING ON BREYDON . . . . .114 



THE ARRIVAL OF THE WOODCOCK . . . 120 



AUTUMN WADERS ON THE BREYDON MUDS : LITTLE 



STINT, CURLEW, DUNLIN, AND CURLEW-SANDPIPER 148 



A RARE VISITOR : CASPIAN PLOVER . . .158 



A CORNER IN BROADLAND : GREAT CRESTED GREBE, 



KINGFISHER, COOTS IN DISTANCE . . . 180 



FLOODED MARSHLAND : LAPWING, SNIPE, AND IN 



DISTANCE LAPWINGS MOBBING HERON . .188 



