288 WILD LIFE ON A NORFOLK ESTUARY 



July \\th. Saw the crane (at Lowne's) which was shot 

 after two or three days' solitary ramble on 

 the Caister sand-dunes in May. What for- 

 bearance and self-restraint local gunners 

 must have exercised to allow it to remain 

 unmolested so long even as that ! 



Oct. loth. Extraordinary numbers of larks arrived to-day, 

 coming in just before and until after day- 

 dawn. 



27^. The first lot of snow-buntings, frequenting the 

 South Denes. 



Nov. %th. A skua very busy chasing the gulls off Gor- 

 leston Pier ; species undeterminable, prob- 

 ably a Richardson's. 



2ist. Very unsettled weather, probably a gale north- 

 ward. Yesterday lapwings pouring in in wing- 

 weary flocks, seemingly scarcely able to land. 

 With them came over wood-pigeons, larks, 

 fieldfares, etc. 



