CHAPTER VIII 

 FROM THE WATCHER'S NOTEBOOK 



THROUGH the courtesy of H. A. Frederick, Esq., 

 Secretary to the Breydon Protection Society, I 

 had the opportunity of overhauling the notebooks 

 kept by the two Breydon watchers, viz. " Ducker " Chambers, 

 who held the post from 1888 to 1899 inclusive, and "New- 

 come" Jary, who was appointed in 1899, and continues to 

 occupy the position. I have omitted certain years' statistics, 

 which have already been published. 1 In the earlier years 

 the "entries" were very spasmodically kept, but an improve- 

 ment came about under Jary's regime, and as he usually 

 added the direction of the prevailing wind, some interesting 

 comparisons can be made by the ingenious reader. Here 

 and there matters of small account have been left out, and 

 only those items likely to be of interest have been made 

 use of. The composition and spelling are Jary's own. 



JARY'S ENTRIES, 1901-1906 

 1901 



April \st. Two hundred and fifty widgeon, several grey 

 plovers, some mallard, two wild geese, lot 

 of knots, dunlins, and ringed plovers. W. ; 

 strong. 



8//z. Three hundred widgeon, some pintails, grey 

 plovers, hundreds of gulls of all kinds. S.W. ; 

 strong. 



?> \2th. A spoonbill, and great numbers of widgeon. 



\6th. Spoonbill still here; many ringed plovers and 

 dunlins. N. ; strong. 



\*]th. Cormorant here to-day. N.E. ; fine. 



1 See Notes of an East Coast Naturalist ', pp. 150-3, and Nature iff ga.$tern 

 Norfolk^ pp. 48-9. 



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