202 Booth: Nesting of the Grasshopper Warbler. 
July 28th, half an hour, 8-50 p.m. to 9-20 p.m. (cool, but 
fine). 
July 29th, quarter of an hour; stopped very near nest, 
with both birds creeping anxiously around. They came very 
close and after a time used the ‘click’ note elsewhere des- 
cribed. 
July 30th, again stopped near nest: again got note, and 
later, the ‘reel,’ suggesting that when very alarmed for safety 
of nest they will‘ reel.’ Before, I have been very careful not to 
unduly alarm them ; probably the ‘ reel’ would have become 
more sustained if I dared have ventured to stay longer. 
July 31st: went over in the afternoon. When I was 
getting over wall near to the nest, female (?) was uttering the 
rattling notes described elsewhere, but no ‘reel’ proper: again 
ten minutes about 7-0 p.m., no ‘ reel.’ 
Aug. Ist, ‘ reeling’ again commenced, but only occasionally. 
Time 7-0 a.m. to 11-30 a.m., four and a half hours: ‘reel’ not 
given above eight or nine times. Last time I noticed it had 
been ‘ reeling ’ on top of ten ft. tree and dropped down into a 
bed of bracken about five yards below first nest here: after 
staying some time out of sight, he came and perched on a tall 
weed among the bracken bed and commenced ‘ reeling,’ and 
spreading and shivering his wings, suggesting he was again 
paying attentions to the female: surely they cannot be 
thinking of nesting again ? 
Aug. 2nd, half an hour, from 6-45 a.m. to 7-15 a.m., no 
Teel, wheat: 
[From this date onwards, until Aug. 29th, Mr. Longbottom 
paid almost daily visits to the place but neither heard nor saw 
the birds—nor did he see or hear anything more of them in his 
still later and more irregular visits after that date.—H.B.B. | 
‘ 
DESCRIPTION OF NESTING SITES OF GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 
Both nests were built on a rough stretch of westward- 
sloping moorland, very dry and naturally well-drained, the 
nearest water being a small runnel about 150 yards away. This 
rough moorland is really part of the Bingley Park, but as yet 
unimproved except by a broad border of close-growing shrubs 
and a double row of tall-growing trees, which tend to keep. 
out intruders (there are no footpaths in or through), and tend 
to add to its privacy and seclusion. Here there is an abundance 
of suitable cover to be found: tall-growing bracken, gorse, 
broom, heather, bilberry bushes, roseberry growing 7 ft. high 
in the ghylls with which the place is scored, bramble, wild 
rasp and the old canes, and under and near the bordering trees 
are tall-growing grasses. More in the open bent, tormentel 
and ladys’ bed-straw: dotted about are solitary elders, moun- 
tain ash, sapling, sycamore, silver birch and young oaks. 
Naturalist, 
