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BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT, 
SUMMER AND AUTUMN OF 1893. 
JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U., 
Great Cotes, R.S.O., Lincoln. 
THE glorious weather of the last summer and autumn, so seldom 
experienced in our country, and specially distinguished by an unusual 
amount of sunshine and absence of moisture, has had a marked 
influence on the movements of migratory birds on the east coast 
of England. The breeding season in high northern latitudes was 
earlier and most favourable throughout for the rapid growth and 
maturing of the young; the southern movement was accelerated 
and also carried forward under the very best met 1 conditions 
which scarcely varied for weeks and months. There has been an 
absence altogether of heavy gales and adverse winds ranging from 
N.W. to S. E., and instead, more or less anti-cyclonic periods, or 
gentler Niles, have prevailed from southerly or westerly quarters, 
with complete absence of thick heavy weather and rain storms. In © 
fact, a more favourable time for the passage of birds has seldom _ 
Occurred, with the result that the migrants have gone direct to their 
destination, probably moving at a great height, so that the chances 
of observation were much lessened. Those ornithologists who have > 
had the most frequent opportunities of visiting the coast, agree that 
there has been, compared with other seasons, everywhere during the 
_ autumn, a great dearth of bird life. : 
much the same conditions appear to have prevailed in 
Se Boles Mr. Gitke, in a letter dated Sept. 24th, says, wtih 
_ two exceptions, the season has been a blank.’ On a roth, Ce 
__ he writes, ‘My garden swarmed with Pied Flycatcher (Museie 
at, clear, and warm.’ 
-but that day the wind was E. by S., lig! 
as seen never before Ar ae musicus less and coming be a 
a nisus, young ; : and during the night great many Checmirtss, 2 
we less Sylvia phenicurus, and some Sylvia al on young ee 
- Again, on Sept. 17th, ‘There was, early in the morning and oe oo 
forenoon great masses of Turdus torquatis, in flights from 100 to 200, oe 
aan 
agen UmMentUs, and ‘other “ ‘long-legs,” passing — the light- oe 
een ke : N. Ae Ww. faint’ 
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wind was. first ONO, in the meres some fe eo co 
