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6th. Bright and warm. Skylark and Wren singing. Sweet Williams 

 blooming freely in the garden. 



7th. Fitful gleams of sunshine ; cold breezes. Skylark, Willow 

 Wren, and Blackcap singing. 



8th. Beautiful bright day. 100 degrees at 8 a.m. 



Flowers found in bloom to-day : Bramble, Bush Vetch, Herb 

 Robert, Nipplewort, Hedge Paisley, Red Campion, Garlic Mustard 

 (will soon be included for the last time this year), Wood Crowfoot, 

 Avens, Furze (nearly finished flowering, mostly gone to seed), Bird's 

 Foot Trefoil, Daisy, Dog Rose, Field Rose, Cinquefoil Hedge 

 Stachys, White Clover, Dove's-foot Crane's Bill, Yarrow, Scentless 

 Mayweed (at its height now), Prickly-headed Poppy, Fumitory, Field 

 Thistle, Shepherd's Purse, Charlock, Hawksbeard, Chickweed Dan- 

 delion, Sow Thistle, Hop Trefoil, Forget-me-not, Long-rooted Cat's 

 Ear, Red Clover, Upright Meadow, and Bulbous Crowfoots, Field 

 Convolvulus, Common Mallow, Cow Parsnip, White Campion, Hedge 

 Mustard, White Dead Nettle, Groundsel, Bladder Campion (nearly 

 finished), Small Knapweed, Germander Speedwell, Blue Sherardia, 

 Heartsease, Lamb's Tongue, White Bryony (one mass on the hedgerows 

 now), Goosegrass, Woody Nightshade, Self Heal, Honeysuckle, Lesser 

 Stitchwort, Field, Scabious, Wild Thyme, Agrimony (is not the perfume 

 of this flower delicious ? ) Dogwood, Meadow Vetchling, Tufted 

 Vetch, Purple Medick, Scarlet Pimpernel, Sainfoin, Wild Strawberry, 

 Small Willow Herb, Water Figwort, Spotted Orchis, Enchanter's 

 Nightshade, Foxglove, Black Bryony (mostly seeded now, the green 

 berries hanging in large clusters), Ragged Robin, Oxeye Daisy, 

 Marsh Mallow, Hedge Calamint, Musk Mallow, Perforated St. John's 

 Wort, Yellow Bedstraw, Black Horehound, Broad-leaved Plantain, 

 Motherwort, Hedge Bedstraw, Milkwort. 



Birds singing : Skylark, Song Thrush (one heard to-day was a 

 young one, probably hatched in the early Spring of this year), 

 Blackcap (uttering part of the song of the Chaffinch perfectly), 

 Greater Whitethroat (mostly sings as it flies or hovers), Common Wren 

 (in full song now). Tree Pipit (very silent to what it has been; only 

 one heard in song to-day). 



Birds seen or heard: -Swallow; Waxwing (one seen at Radlett 

 Railway Station. It was shot by the Station Master in November, 

 18*.>5, out of a flock of Fieldfares, which were feeding on the berries 

 of a Mountain Ash tree in the station yard), House Sparrow (seen 

 in flocks on the waste ground feeding on obnoxious weed seeds), 



