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calendar is punctuated with the note of the Cuckoo 

 once more. Most of our resident birds are now 

 nesting; migrants appear one after the other as the 

 month slips away Willow Wrens, Whitethroats, 



I. The Chiffchaff. 2. The Wheatear. 



Blackcaps, Redstarts, Ring -ouzels, Tree Pipits, 

 Swallows, and Martins among the rest. Grouse are 

 now breeding. 



Bird-life in May perhaps reaches the zenith of its 

 activity. It is a month of song and a month of love, 

 during which the nests of nearly all our commoner 

 birds may be found. It also marks the arrival of 



