284 BIRD-LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY. 



This species appears on the shore here in small 

 numbers towards the end of July. Perhaps about 

 the same time (but not every year) an odd Wheat- 

 ear or so is seen there too, and occasionally a 

 bunch of Ringed Plovers with a solitary Sander- 

 ling. August inaugurates migration on a larger 

 scale with the appearance of the Dunlin once 

 more upon the mudflats. As the month slips 

 by the coasts gradually assume the avine aspects 

 characteristic of autumn. Common Sandpipers 

 become increasingly abundant; Ringed Plovers 

 and Sanderlings are perceptibly more numerous; 

 and the Black-headed Gull and the Common Gull 

 make their appearance to remain with us until the 

 following spring. Coasting migrants also begin to 

 arrive. The Spotted Crake is now passing Devon 

 on its way to the south, likewise the Turnstone, 

 the Little Stint, the Knot, the Greenshank, the 

 Redshank, and the Whimbrel, all these species 

 continuing to migrate over the county during the 

 following month as well, and some of them even 

 into October. Several of our own summer 

 migrants begin to move south in August. Of 

 these we may mention the Whitethroat, the 

 Willow Wren, the Grasshopper Warbler, the 



