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22. Birds resuming their songs. Titlarks migrating. 



28. Starlings passing over in flocks. 



29. A few warblers in song. Harvest finished. 



September. 



2. Flocks of sand martins. 



3. Noticed small beds of dodder {Cuscuta Trifolii) among the 

 clover here. (Young flycatchers still with us hawking about after 

 flies in shady places. — P. /.) 



4. Turnips smothered with Aphides. Slugs and snails not 

 abundant. 



11. Numbers of Aphides on wing; observed great numbers in 

 spiders' webs. Haws and guelder rose berries plentiful. 



12. Large flocks of greenfinches. Heard lesser redpolls. Honey- 

 suckle, ragwort, St. John's wort, hawkweed, and a few other plants 

 still in bloom. Many bees and wasps yet on wing. 



18. Berries of the elder ripe ; plentiful. Noticed spiders' nets 

 fixed on the topmost branches of high trees, with Aphides entangled. 

 Spiders do not seem to feed much on Aphides : those nets which are 

 filled with Aphides are apparently deserted. Swallows decreasing. 

 Large flocks of starlings and greenfinches. 



14. The wren has a low under-song, very different from that 

 which is generally heard ; it is not unlike the under-song of the 

 hedgesparrow : it is sung on the ground when moving in search of 

 food, 



17. Ivy in flower. Leaves of forest trees falling. 



18. Immense swarms of Aphides on turnips and other cruciferous 

 plants, 



21. (Chiffchaff still uttering its bitone in our ash trees. Butter- 

 flies plentiful.— P. /.) 



24. Admiral and white butterflies abroad. (Bramble finch, first 

 stranger fiom Norway, heard. — P. /.) 



October. 

 1. Bats hawking in the twihght. 

 3. Brooks and wells low. Butterflies still abroad. 



5. Swallows last seen. (Redwings near Hovingham — P. /.) 



7. An immense flock of greenfinches feeding among late peas 

 and knotgrass {Polygonum arviculare). 

 9. Redwings arrived. 



