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REPORT ON FIELD MEETINGS 



Willow Wren, Wood Wren, and Tree Pipit were prominent, 

 were numerous, and the botanists also found much to interest. 



The monument was visited, and as the afternoon wore on 

 the party gradually made their way to Gibside Hall, where all 

 assembled and were most hospitably entertained by Mr. and 

 Mrs. Grunhut. An account of the hall and its builders given 

 afterwards by Mr. Grunhut was much appreciated. 



After tea the old fish-ponds, chapel, and mausoleum were 

 visited, and one of our members, an enthusiastic botanist, 

 gave to a small number an account and explanation of that 

 truly parasitic plant the Toothwort, which added much to the 

 .interest of the occasion, and is a practice which I venture to 

 think might with advantage be more frequently followed. 



After this time did not permit us to do more than to make 

 for Rowland's Gill station, whence we took train for Newcastle, 



Amonsf the flowers observed in bloom were : — 



Wood Anemone 

 Lady's Smock 

 Bird Cherry 

 Lady's Mantle 

 Moschatel 

 Wood Sorrel 

 Bitter Vetch 



Golden Saxifrage 

 Woodruff 

 Whortleberry 

 Toothwort 

 Wild Hyacinth 

 Great Woodrush 

 Field Woodrush 



Of the birds seen the following list was kindly given me by 

 one of our members, a resident in the district and an ardent 

 ornithologist, all the birds mentioned having been seen by 

 him in the immediate neighbourhood, and during the time 

 occupied by the excursion. 



Fieldfare (ii birds together) 



Wheatear 



Whinchat 



Redstart 



Blackcap Warbler 



Willow Wren (very numerous) 



Wood Wren (not so common as 



in former years) 

 Sedge Warbler 



Dipper (nest) 



Long-tailed Tit 



Marsh Tit (nest and 7 eggs) 



Cole, Blue, and Great Tits 



Grey Wagtail 



Swallow 



Sand Martin 



House Martin 



Hawfinch 



