212 WILD LIFE ON A NORFOLK ESTUARY 



June i^th. A little gull and a pair of lesser terns. N.E. ; 



squally. 

 \$>th. A black tern here to-day, and also some lesser 



terns. E. ; fine. 



igth. A lot of young herons to-day. E. ; fine. 

 2\st. A flock of twenty-one lesser terns. S.W.; fine. 

 26th. Common sandpipers and lesser terns. W. ; 



strong. 

 ^oth. A good many young redshanks, also lesser 



terns. S.E. ; fine. 



July $rd. Some common terns here to-day. E.N.E.; fine. 

 6th. Young birds coming in numbers. Black-headed 



gulls, lesser terns, redshanks, also fowl shovel- 



ers and mallard. S.; fine. 

 i^th. Several whimbrel here to-day, also some big 



terns. N.W.; fine. 

 17 'th. Some large terns and some lesser terns, also 



a good many other birds dunlins, curlews, 



ringed plovers, whimbrel, and redshanks. 



S.W.; fine. 

 2ist. About five o'clock this afternoon a large bird 



came here from the eastward, a white bird 



with black tips to his wings and a very big 



beak, also a spoonbill just before dark. [I saw 



this bird which was a pelican.] S.W.; fine. 

 22nd. The pelican left here this morning and went 



away to the eastward. S.W. ; fine. 

 2%th. A flock of nine turnstones and many whimbrel. 



W.; fine. 

 August ist. A flock of knots. S.W.; fine. 



%th. Several greenshanks about to-day. S.E. ; 



tempest. 

 ,, gth. A little gull here, and scores of whimbrel and 



curlews. Many dunlins and other small birds. 



N.W. ; rainy. 



i$th. Three sheld-ducks. S.; fine. 

 i$th. A spoonbill and an oyster- catcher. W.; fine. 

 \%th. Spoonbill still here, and a good many lesser 



terns, and a few godwits. N. ; strong. 

 igth. Spoonbill went away to the N.W. this evening. 



W.; fine. 

 2ist. This morning saw a couple of stilts flying across 



Breydon, going W. A young little gull here 



this evening, and a black tern. S.W.; fine. 



