PHEASANT ROOSTING 



BIRD LIFE GLIMPSES 



CHAPTER I 



ICKLINGHAM, in and about which most of the 

 observations contained in the following pages have 

 been made, is a little village of West Suffolk, 

 situated on the northern bank of the river Lark. 

 It lies between Mildenhall and Bury St. Edmunds, 

 amidst country which is very open, and so sandy 

 and barren that in the last geological survey it is 

 described as having more the character of an 

 Arabian desert than an ordinary English land- 

 scape. There are, indeed, wide stretches where the 

 sand has so encroached upon the scanty vegetation 

 of moss and lichen that no one put suddenly down 



