296 BIRD-LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY. 



Now is the wondrous phenomenon of migration 

 unfolding its oft-repeated story, and all our summer 

 migrants, with one or two exceptions, appear in 

 their accustomed haunts. As day by day goes 

 by, we detect the song or presence of species after 

 species : avine music is now abundant on every 

 side. Now, too, are our woods and hedge-banks 

 gay with anemones, star flowers, mock straw- 

 berries, red campions, dog and white violets, and 

 primroses in abundance ; the trees are bursting 

 into leaf; the orchards are aflame with bloom. 

 Most of our remaining shore and sea birds now 

 take their departure Brent Geese, Wigeon, Teal, 

 Tufted Duck, Scaup, Scoters, and Red-breasted 

 Mergansers, among the Duck tribe ; Plovers, Jack 

 Snipes, and Purple Sandpipers from the shore ; 

 Common Gulls, Kittiwakes, and Black-headed 

 Gulls, also Guillemots and Razorbills from the 

 seas. During this month there are other stranger 

 species passing over the county and along the 

 coast, all speeding north to breed. Among these 

 coasting migrants in April we have the Turnstone 

 and the Whimbrel. With the advent of May, 

 this coasting migration becomes even more intense, 

 among the passers being the Little Stint, the 



