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BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT 



IN THE AUTUMN OF 1895. 



JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U., 



Great Cotes Hoitse> R.S.O., Lincoln ; President of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union 



In forwarding these notes to 'The Naturalist' I have to thank 

 Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh, of Grainsby Hall, Mr. H. Bendelack 

 Hewetson, of Leeds, Mr. Loten, of Easington, and Mr. M. Bailey, 

 of Flamborough, for information conveyed both orally and by letter. 



The autumn has been, generally speaking, barren of results to 

 the ornithologist, and few rare visitors to our eastern shores have to 

 be recorded ; many regular immigrants also have been very scarce, 

 or absent altogether. Like the autumn of 1894, it has probably 

 been a very favourable season for birds on passage across the north 

 sea, but as regards the collection of facts due to observations 

 of a visible and low-flying mig<ation, brought about by adverse 

 meteorological conditions, the results have been very poor. 



Corvus cornix L. Hooded Crow. A pair have nested this 



season in Easington parish and brought off young. 



Motacilla flava L. Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail. A pair 



were frequently seen by Mr. Hewetson in June, during the time 

 he was engaged in excavating a tumulus on the coast near 

 Kilnsca beacon. He felt certain that these were a pair of 

 breeding birds having a nest in the vicinity. 



Squatarola helvetica L. Grey Plover. July 1st. Several at 



this date on the Humber flats off Kdnsea. Black-breasted. 

 Tringa canutus L. Knot. July 1st. Several at this date on 



the Humber flats off Kiln a. Underparts a faded red. 



Numenius phaeopus L, Whimbrel. July 30th. On passage 



at a great height. 



Saxicola oenanthe L. Wheatear. July, last week. La 



numbers on passage on the Lincolnshire coast and at the 



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Spurn. 



Phylloscopus trochilus (I-)- Willow-warbler. August, first 



week, an immense migration at Easington aud Kiln^ea, also large 



the week in my garden at Great Cotes. 



Falco peregrinus TunstalL Peregrine. August 25 th. Three 



came in from the sea, circling over Easington in the sky-depth at 

 such a height that the ascending circles were contained in the 



Jan. 1896. 



