118 BRITISH BIRDS. [VoL. X!. 
BREEDING-HABITS OF WILLOW-WARBLER 
AND NESTING-SITES AT CONSIDERABLE 
HEIGHTS FROM GROUND. 
Wir reference to this subject (antea, pp. 88-92) some 
notes on a nest I had under observation at Windermere in 
1914 may be of interest. 
When first found, on May 10th, the bird was sitting on 
six eggs, which hatched on the 19th. One of the young 
died on the 24th and all the rest left the nest on June Ist, 
making the time of fledging thirteen days. 
I visited the nest between 12 and 1 p-m. each day, but 
though the hen became greatly excited and did not go far 
from the nest, I never saw the cock. Nor did he take any part 
in feeding the young when, on two or three days, I spent 
some time in photographing the birds. MaArgory GaRNerrT. 
On June 17th, 1898, [I found a Willow-Warbler’s nest 
built amongst woodbine on an oak tree 8 ft. from the 
ground. The nest contained five eggs. 
On May 20th, 1917, Mr. George Bolam and I found a Willow- 
Warbler’s nest built inside a syuirrel’s drey near the top of 
a larch tree over 30 ft. from the ground. ‘The nest contained’ 
two eggs. Both nests were found in the Stocksfield-on-Tyne 
district. J. 8. T. Watton. 
MALE REDSHANK INCUBATING. 
On May Ist, 1917, while crossing a bit of waste land near 
Lurgan, Co. Armagh, I picked up a Redshank (T'ringa totanus) 
which I saw accidentally killed on a nest of four eggs; it~ 
sat very close indeed, but the eggs were quite fresh. On 
being dissected it proved to be a male. J. CUNNINGHAM. 
SPOTTED REDSHANK IN NORFOLK. 
Ir may be of interest to record that on September 7th, 1917, 
I saw a Spotted Redshank (Tinga erythropus) standing 
beside a dirty pond on the main road between Syderstone 
and Docking, practically in the village of Syderstone. 
I stopped my car and watched the bird for about five minutes, 
during which time it flew round the pond once or twice, 
settled again and fed round the edge, and eventually flew 
off in a straight line for the sea, in “the direction of Wells- 
next-the-Sea. 
Though a regular visitor to this coast, this is the first 
time I have seen this species, though I know the birds well, 
having had them in confinement. The sun was very bright 
at the time I saw the bird, and TI could not be sure whether 
it was adult or immature, although it was only ten yards 
from me, but I think it was immature. Hua Wormap. 
