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In" [the home park alone, which is 12 or 13 acres in extent, there 

 breed annually at least 



200 pairs of linnets. 

 100 ,, greenfinches. 



30 ... icterine warblers (Hippolais hippolais). 

 30 ,, garden warblers, white throats, and lesser white- 

 throats. 



20 ,, fieldfares (otherwise found as a breeding species 

 in Germany in the northern and eastern 

 parts only). 



5 ,, song thrushes. 

 5 ,, blackbirds. 

 2 ,, golden orioles. 

 10 ,, goldfinches. 

 5 ,. chaffinches. 

 Several pairs of hawfinches. 



., ,, yellow-hammerc. 



,. ,, hedge-sparrows. 



,, wrens. 



,. ,, golden- crested wrens. 



' ,. ,, chiff-chaffs and wood-warblers. 



,, red-backed shrikes (though many are shot). 



., ,, nuthatches. 



tree-creepers. 



,, spotted fly-catchers and pied fly-catchers. 



., black redstarts and common redstarts. 



,, ,, sedge- warblers. 



One pair of white wagtails, 

 kingfishers. . 

 moorhens, 

 little grebes. 

 2 pairs of wild ducks. 



30 tits (great tits, blue tits, and marsh- tits). 

 30 ,, starlings (see note, p. 43). 

 Several pairs of wrynecks. 



The holes in the walls of the old castle provide shelter for 

 swifts, and other birds. Above, in the roof, dwell jackdaws, 

 barn-owls, little owls (Athene noctua), and kestrels (Falco tinnunculus). 



