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coming in contact with a root, when it had been driven 

 some nine inches, was abandoned, and the other started. 

 The latter extended nearly two feet into the clayey soil, and 

 from it a brood was successfully reared, despite the fact that 

 birds'-nesting boys must more than once have passed the place. 

 A Wren's nest, on the fringe of the root, was actually 

 harried by them ; but the face of the little "cliff" of earth 

 was protected by the water, which had gathered nearly knee- 

 deep in the hole, which the fall of the tree had occasioned, 

 and the Kingfishers' boring happily escaped suspicion. 



The Welsh name of the Kingfisher is Glas-y-dorlan, 

 or sometimes Tinsigl-y-dwr. One gentleman on the Lower 

 Dee called it Pioden-glas-y-dwr. 



\lth. Many Wheatears now dispersed in pairs over 

 the hills, but eggs are later here than in most places. 

 I found them fresh up to quite the end of May, and the 

 earliest fledged young were seen on iyth June. 



i$th. A single Sandpiper on the Lliw ; no more seen 

 till 2 yth, when a great many arrived together. For some 

 days after this, little flocks were to be seen flitting about 

 the sides of the lake, or pairs disturbed in the fields nowhere 

 near where they intended to nest. On 28th, several pairs 

 were already pushing their way up the Lliw to nesting 

 stations. 



iqth. Redstarts in several places between Bala and 

 Corwen, some of the males in song ; also Whitethroats, 

 and a pair of Blackcap Warblers, but none of them noticed 

 near Llanuwchllyn for a day or two yet. Genial sunshine 

 now, Blackthorn coming into bloom, and the first of the 

 Wood Anemones, Sorrel, Stitchwort, and a Cowslip : 

 Primroses and Dog-violets appeared a few days ago. 

 Many House Martins dipping and flying over the lake in 

 the evening : next day they were beginning to visit their 

 nesting windows in the village. A pair of Marsh Tits 

 excavating a site for their nest in a decayed stump near 

 Llangowr. 



2ofk. A Linnet, near Plas-in-Cwm-Cynllwyd, almost 

 exactly imitating the Dipper's song. In the village, a 

 Chaffinch kept mixing up some of the Tree Pipit's notes 



