HICKLING BROAD 



WHERE FISH ARE FOUND 



WE do not regard any summer month as a time of 

 migration. It is the habit to think of June and July as a 

 time when creatures all settle down to their work of breeding 

 and feeding their young in special and restricted haunts. 

 But if you live by the sea-shore, or even on inland waters, you 

 see various forms of migration in process, even in birds, and new 

 arrivals and departures are of daily occurrence. To Norfolk 

 Broads in full summer flock many birds of divers kinds more 

 or less independent of what are marked as migration dates. 

 Most of them, as they appear before you, even in summer 

 proper, have their nuptial splendour unsullied : knots and 

 godwits ' in the red ' ; smart grey plovers, now vested in jet 

 black ; dunlins, that were white below in winter, are patched 

 with a horseshoe of black. Spoonbills occasionally amble 

 about as if they had taken possession ; and ducks, still gaudy, 

 in spite of the presence of some flappers, people the shal- 

 lows. Grey herons prance in queer and grotesque attitudes 

 as they search the creeks for eels or it may be for flounders. 

 Fishermen may note more remarkable migrations under the 

 waters. On some of the more difficult rivers, even in North- 

 West Ireland, the salmon do not take the river falls by storm 



