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by the river-side we saw about half a dozen pairs of common sand- 
pipers, which kept flitting along before us, with their peculiar flight, 
from stone to stone, all the while making a shrill pipe. These had 
their young about the stones on the river side, and, after looking 
for a few minutes, I found one: the little fellow was just getting 
into vice plumage, but could not fly: on being put down a few 
yards from the river he started off at a good pace for the bank, 
while the two old birds hovered over him in a state of great 
excitement. 
We now came toa large meadow of about eighty acres, from 
which the water was drained by deep cuttings fringed with rushes, 
this being a favourite place for snipe, several pairs of which we 
flushed when walking across, but, though I looked, could not 
find any young ones. Here also were great numbers of green 
plover and about twenty curlews. I also saw one golden plover 
and a pair of teal. 
We next came to the lake, which is surrounded by hills and 
is about a hundred and fifty acres in extent, two-thirds of it 
being bog, and covered with moss, reeds, flags, and sedge, 
through which the river winds, forming a pond here and there, 
and, being far away from the “haunts of man,” is the very 
place for wild fowl and wading birds to breed. We had 
only got some few yards amongst the long grass when we 
saw several pairs of redshanks coming towards us, which, with 
sharp cries, wheeled about over our heads. During the day we 
saw about fifteen pairs of this handsome bird; then we began to 
see curlews getting up in front, far out of gun-shot; these flew 
straight away, uttering their musical note. ‘There were a good 
many gulls hovering over the water: I noticed several pairs of each 
of the common, blackheaded and kittiwake. A little way on, 
beside a pool, I saw a bird running along, which, as we came 
near, rose and flew round, sometimes settling about ten yards off: 
once or twice I nearly struck it with my fishing-rod. I believe it 
was the green sandpiper, the note resembling that of the common 
sandpiper, but was louder, and the bird twice as large. The legs 
were a dirty yellow-brown, the inside of the feet being light yellow. 
This bird had young close by. We saw it again next day, but 
about a week after it had left.* 
* [The colour of the legs and feet proves that it was not the green sandpiper, but 
the wood sandpiper (Totanus glareola).—Ep. } 
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