202 WILD LIFE ON A NORFOLK ESTUARY 



May ^th. A great quantity of whimbrel, and a lot of old 



herons fishing here to-day. S.W. ; fine. 

 6th. .A lot of birds here now. Some grey plovers, 



godwits, a few terns, and scores of whimbrel. 



S.W.; fine. 

 loth. A spoonbill, some godwits, lot of whimbrel, and 



hundreds of knots, ringed plovers, and dunlins. 



S.E. ; fine. 

 1 2th. ["Godwit day."] A good number of birds. A 



spoonbill, several lesser terns, some godwits, 



plenty of whimbrel, and a few grey plovers. 



N.E.; fine. 



i^th. Two more spoonbills came to-day. W. ; strong. 

 \Jth. Several turnstones about, and a couple of 



spoonbills. N. ; rainy. 

 igth. A good number of bar-tailed godwits here, 



some greenshanks, and hundreds of small 



birds. S.E.; fine. 



2Oth. Six more spoonbills came in to-day. W.; fine. 

 2^th. Many birds, including godwit, knots, whimbrel, 



and ringed plovers ; also the six spoonbills. 



N.E.; fine. 

 2%th. Several whimbrel and godwits to-day. N.E. ; 



strong. 



,, 2gth. Six spoonbills left to-day. N.E. ; fine. 

 $ist. Several lesser terns, common also, and a white- 

 winged black tern. N.E. ; fine. 

 June 6th. An avocet came in to-day, but did not stop 



long, after a short rest of two hours flying 



away to the N.E. E. ; fine and warm. 

 loth. Some lesser terns, a few curlews, redshanks, 



and a greenshank. N.E. ; fine. 

 i^th. Ten Egyptian geese here this day. E. ; 



strong. 

 \Jth. A lot of lesser terns, and a few godwits, and 



some whimbrel. N. ; fine rain. 

 2^th. A pair of greenshanks, I believe, are nesting on 



the rond adjoining Breydon ; they have been 



about there a long time. 1 

 July 1st. A lot of young redshanks on the mudflats 



to-day. 



1 I noticed these birds for a considerable time and suspected their nesting in 

 the neighbourhood ; they were with us the whole summer, and on July 9th three 

 others, evidently young ones, joined them on Breydon. See Nature in Eastern 

 Norfolk, p. 236. 



