OTES 



DESTRUCTION OF SEA-BIRDS IN A STORM AT 

 TEESMOUTH. 



Never within the memory of Cleveland residents has there 

 been such a remarkable storm, nor one so disastrous to 

 bird-life, as that M'hich arose with startling suddenness, 

 and SMept over the Teesmouth, sliortly after noon on 



GULLS KILLED BY THE STORM : THERE WERE FORTY OR MORE 

 IX THIS SPOT. 



[Photographed by Dr. A. S. Robinson.) 



July 2nd, 1914. A vivid and alarming display of lightning 

 heralded a cyclone of terrific violence, accompanied by a 

 heavy fall of hail, with large lumps of clear ice, and it was 

 afterwards found that great havoc had been wrought 

 amongst the seabirds in the estuary, several hundreds being 

 killed and washed up to liigh-tide mark. 



On visiting the scene next day, my wife and I saw the 

 bodies of gulls scattered in all directions, and counted 

 up^\■ards of three hundred Mitliin a distance of a quarter 

 of a mile, near Redcar jetty, without taking into con- 

 sideration those by the breakAvater side. In some places 



