386 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



made, it appears the Heron bred at Hagg Wood up to 1850, 

 though not after that date. 



Kirby Hill, near Boroughbridge, the seat of Mr. R. 

 Thompson. Deserted about 1856. 



Scarthingwell, near Ferrybridge, a seat of Lord Hawke. 

 (In Denny's Leeds Catalogue (1840), it is stated that there 

 were eighteen or twenty nests, but they were abandoned 

 " two or three years ago.") 



Dob Park Wood, Fewston. Owing to the trees being cut 

 down, about 1830, the birds left (W. Storey MS.). 



Walton Hall, the residence of the celebrated naturalist 

 Charles Waterton. This Heronry was founded in 1827, the 

 year after Waterton had completed a wall round his park, 

 built for the purpose of protecting bird-life there. At first 

 there were six nests on Scotch firs, and the new establishment 

 throve until some of the trees were thinned in winter ; the 

 following spring the Herons abandoned their former nests 

 and built afresh on oak trees ; the colony gradually increased 

 until it numbered thirty-six nests, which continued during 

 Waterton's lifetime ; after his death in 1865, some of the 

 trees were felled and the birds at once abandoned the place as 

 a breeding station. A pair attempted to nest in 1872 at Haw 

 Park, near by, but was destroyed. 



Wetherby Grange, owned by the late Sir R. Gunter. Long 

 abolished. 



Nostell Priory ; in 1826 there were five or six nests on 

 a willowed island in the lake. Charles Waterton in his 

 " Essays/' remarked that they were reduced to one, or at most 

 two, before the middle of the past century. Soon after the 

 Heronry was deserted. 



Azerley Hall, the seat of Mr. R. S. Crompton. There were 

 eight nests in 1844. 



Browsholme, near Clitheroe, Mr. Parker's residence, on 

 the Yorkshire side of the Hodder. There was a large Heronry 

 which was deserted for several years and re- occupied in 1877 ; 

 in 1880 there were fifteen nests, but the birds left about 1890, 

 and established a colony at Harrop Hall, near Slaidburn, 

 which, however, was soon abandoned. 



