94 IN A CHESHIRE GARDEN 



to distinguish the variations of gull plumage 

 at different ages and at different times of the 

 year. 



In 1908 the keeper (Mr. J. Porter) showed 

 me a Bohemian waxwing, a hooded crow and 

 a hobby, all of which he had shot in War- 

 burton within a year or two previously. 



He has told me since of stockdoves ("blue 

 rocks " he calls them) nesting here, and a 

 curious story of a wren's nest on an ash-stump 

 in the Fox-cover in 1910, on the top of which 

 a hedgesparrow built her nest. Both broods, 

 he said, hatched about the same time. 



I have received from a friend in Northamp- 

 tonshire (Mr. G. S. Garrett, of Little Hough- 

 ton) a photograph showing a similar instance 

 of two nests built one above the other. He 

 says : "A piece of bark about 20 inches by 

 13, fell off an elm tree into a fence and dried 

 up into a tube-like shape. A spotted fly- 

 catcher built its nest in the top and laid 5 

 eggs and a brown wren in the bottom laying 

 7 eggs .... The nests are now in the 

 Rochester Museum." 



