MAY. 



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Cuckoo, Nightingale, Song Thrush, Willow Warbler, Great Tit, Common 

 Wren, Skylark, and Blackcap. 



Redbreast singing at 8 p.m. Many small Moths flying about in 

 the garden. No wind. 



6th. Heard the welcome call of " Cuckoo," and the joyous song 

 of the Skylark whilst at breakfast this morning. 



Following Wild Flowers blooming to-day: Dandelion, Red and 

 White Dead Nettles, Shepherd's Purse, Coltsfoot, Common Chickweed, 

 Heartsease, Groundsel, Garlic 

 Mustard, Greater Stitchwort, 

 Wild Strawberry, Dog's Mer- 

 cury, Dog Violet, Wood Sorrel 

 from which oxalic acid is 

 made, if I mistake not 

 Sallow, Wild Hyacinth, Herb 

 Robert -the first I have seen 

 in flower this season Ground 

 Ivy (a flower not known to 

 many people, but a very 

 delicate and pretty plant). 

 Cuckoo Flower (also known 

 as Bitter Cress and Lady's 

 Smock), Daisy, Woodruff (the 

 first seen in flower), Lesser 

 Celandine, Primrose owing 

 to the lateness of the season 

 they are in the height of 

 their beauty now -Cowslip, 

 Blackthorn, Cuckoo Pint (or 



Wild Arum), Forget-me-not, Furze, Hop Trefoil, Hedge Parsley, Common 

 Veronica (this is a Speedwell, and it is interesting to note that there 

 are over a dozen species in Britain), Bugle Flower, Upright Meadow 

 Crowfoot, Strawberry-leaved Potentil (Potentilla Fragariastrum) 

 mistaken by many people for the Wild Strawberry, but the leaves of 

 the Potentil are a good deal smaller and Wood Crowfoot. Are we 

 not getting a formidable list now? There are 35 enumerated here, 

 and these, of course, only refer to those I actually saw in a restricted 

 distrk t. 



The Avian choir to-day was made up of the following members : 

 Greater and Lesser Whitethroats, Skylark, Greenfinch, Redbreast, Tree 



NEST OF COMMON WREN, 

 built in bundle of old horseshoes. 



