1 84 AN EAST COAST NATURALIST 



air seemed literally alive with Grey Plovers and other 

 migrants. Almost everyone noticed their incessant 

 piping calls. 



1897 



June 26. I observed about threescore Dunlins 

 and a few Ringed Plovers on Breydon mud flats. 

 Surely it were time that they had gone northward 

 to their breeding haunts. Can it be that the 

 Dunlins, at least, were non-breeders of that year ? 



Aug. 4. Saw twelve Common Sandpipers in one 

 flock on the Bure, the largest number I ever saw 

 together at one time. 



Dec. 4. A Sparrow's nest with young ones at 

 Gorleston. 



1898 



Jan. 17. Young Sparrows, reared since 

 Christmas (1897), are to be seen flying about on 

 Trafalgar Road! Three weeks prior to this date 

 some young Starlings were hatched at Southtown. 



May 26. Nest of Pied Wagtails in an old 

 pail hanging on a wall at Tunstall, near Acle. 



Aug. 11. Quite a number of Crossbills invaded 

 a Southtown garden, where, to the annoyance of 

 the gardener, they commenced plucking his cherries 

 and gooseberries. In " self-defence " he slew several. 

 Of two I saw and obtained for the Tolhouse Museum 

 one was a dirty yellowish green, the other a bright red. 



Aug. 14. Saw some Sand-Martins at Thorpe 

 popping in and out of holes in a wall that stands up 

 direct from the water at the riverside. They had 



