﻿ORNITHOLOGICAL 
  NOTES 
  FROM 
  NORFOLK. 
  205 
  

  

  March. 
  

  

  7th. 
  — 
  Mr. 
  Bird 
  reports 
  early 
  nests 
  of 
  the 
  Thrush, 
  Blackbird, 
  

   and 
  Wren, 
  but 
  I 
  heard 
  of 
  two 
  Thrushs' 
  nests 
  with 
  eggs 
  in 
  them 
  

   six 
  weeks 
  ago. 
  

  

  10th. 
  — 
  Mr. 
  Eobert 
  Gurney 
  repeatedly 
  heard 
  a 
  Bittern 
  on 
  

   Sutton 
  Broad, 
  and 
  again 
  at 
  intervals 
  uttering 
  its 
  double 
  groan 
  

   until 
  the 
  20th, 
  when 
  it 
  left 
  off 
  " 
  booming." 
  The 
  same, 
  or 
  another, 
  

   let 
  itself 
  be 
  heard 
  at 
  Hickling 
  (Bird), 
  and 
  one 
  was 
  killed 
  by 
  a 
  

   warrener's 
  dog 
  at 
  Shadwell 
  (W. 
  G. 
  Clarke), 
  but 
  of 
  this 
  I 
  did 
  not 
  

   receive 
  the 
  date. 
  They 
  are 
  rare 
  birds 
  now. 
  

  

  12th. 
  — 
  Greater 
  Spotted 
  Woodpecker 
  "jarring." 
  

  

  17th. 
  — 
  Ringed 
  Plovers 
  beginning 
  to 
  nest 
  (Bird). 
  

  

  18th. 
  — 
  Snipe 
  gyrating 
  in 
  pairs 
  ; 
  Bearded 
  Tit 
  singing. 
  

  

  20th.— 
  W.S.W., 
  5, 
  at 
  Yarmouth; 
  W., 
  2, 
  at 
  Keswick. 
  Books 
  

   and 
  Grey 
  Crows 
  going 
  south 
  all 
  day 
  along 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  sandhills 
  

   (Bird). 
  

  

  21st.— 
  S.W., 
  5. 
  ChiffchafT 
  at 
  Mulbarton 
  (Bobbie). 
  Cuckoo 
  

   at 
  Horsey 
  on 
  the 
  coast 
  (Bird). 
  Great 
  number 
  of 
  Knot 
  at 
  Hun- 
  

   stanton 
  (Southgate). 
  

  

  22nd. 
  — 
  S.W., 
  5. 
  Black 
  Bedstart 
  at 
  Lynn, 
  and 
  some 
  days 
  

   afterwards 
  tanother 
  at 
  Yarmouth 
  (W. 
  Lowne). 
  

  

  24th.— 
  Five 
  Kestrels 
  at 
  Keswick 
  circling 
  very 
  high 
  in 
  the 
  air. 
  

  

  26th. 
  — 
  Swallow 
  at 
  Hickling. 
  

  

  27th.— 
  House-Martin 
  at 
  Mundesley 
  (Kiviere). 
  

  

  28th.— 
  Bay's 
  Wagtail 
  at 
  Fritton 
  (Upcher). 
  

  

  29th. 
  — 
  Eight 
  Great 
  Crested 
  Grebes! 
  in 
  pairs 
  on 
  Fritton 
  Lake. 
  

   Cuckoo 
  seen 
  at 
  Yarmouth 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Patterson, 
  its 
  second 
  appear- 
  

   ance 
  in 
  March. 
  [It 
  was 
  also 
  heard 
  in 
  Dorsetshire 
  on 
  the 
  24th, 
  

   and 
  in 
  Hampshire 
  on 
  the 
  30th. 
  J 
  

  

  30th. 
  — 
  Three 
  Bedshanks' 
  nestsf 
  at 
  St. 
  Olave's 
  ready 
  for 
  eggs. 
  

  

  31st.— 
  N.W., 
  6. 
  A 
  Buff 
  and 
  two 
  Beeves 
  (Bird). 
  First 
  

   arrivals 
  in 
  the 
  Broad 
  district 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  which 
  still 
  clings 
  to 
  

   its 
  old 
  haunts 
  in 
  spite 
  of 
  all 
  opposition. 
  

  

  April. 
  

  

  3rd. 
  — 
  A 
  Bearded 
  Tit's 
  nest 
  with 
  three 
  eggs 
  (Bird). 
  

  

  4th. 
  — 
  W., 
  5. 
  The 
  keeper 
  on 
  our 
  principal 
  Broad 
  reported 
  to 
  

   Mr. 
  Bird 
  the 
  following 
  arrivals 
  : 
  Eight 
  Tufted 
  Ducks, 
  fourteen 
  

   Buffs 
  and 
  Beeves, 
  some 
  Golden-eyes, 
  and 
  a 
  Bar-tailed 
  Godwit 
  ; 
  

  

  