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arrivals, the latter very tame, as is usual with the immature birds of 
this species, which arrive exactly at this date on the Cornish moors. 
I observed also a few snow buntings, goldfinches and greenfinches, 
a common redstart on a wall, and in the Abbey Gardens a great tit 
and five blue tits, which remained through the winter feeding on 
the scale-blight on the acacia trees, but were joined by no others, 
Golden, gray and lapwing plover became plentiful about this date. 
The first redwings, large flocks of starlings, with an attendant pair 
of sparrowhawks and a few missel thrushes, arrived. 
Westerly gales prevailed to the end of the month, and nothing 
fresh appeared but a flock of gray phalaropes, about thirteen in 
number, which I was able to watch for some time, as they were 
perfectly tame, dipping among some sea-weed at the edge of a rock 
where I was sitting; several were observed in South Devon and 
Cornwall about this date. 
October 30th. Greenshanks frequented the pool at Tresco about 
this time: they kept, as usual, huddling together on a flat stone, 
taking a flight round, uttering their peculiarly beautiful notes and 
returning again to the same spot. 
October 31st. First woodcock shot. 
November Ist. The wind got round to the S.E. in the night, and 
till the 12th varied from that to N.E., the best possible quarter for 
birds, and. the Scolopacide arrived in great force: without 
detailing each day’s sport, forty woodcocks, twenty-five snipe and 
fifty jacks were shot out of this flight. 
November 7th. Visited St. Martin’s Island, observing on the way 
that great northern and the smaller divers had arrived. A few 
furze-bushes on St. Martin’s Head, the nearest land to Cornwall, 
were tenanted by six woodcocks, a landrail, some siskins, and a 
longeared owl, which, settling again, sat blinking in the sun, raising 
its feet alternately, evidently not relishing its prickly resting-place. 
Though the rest of the island was carefully beaten I only saw two 
more woodcocks. 
November 8th. Walking to St. Mary’s Moors saw an immature 
spotted flycatcher and the last wheatear; a very tame purple sand- 
piper was sitting on a stone by the fresh-water pool. I put up five 
longeared owls from a bush in Holy Vale, and several others 
elsewhere. In the moors were some full and a great many jack 
snipes: the water rails were a positive nuisance, scuttling about in 
all directions and bothering my old dog terribly. Coots had also 
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