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it after leaving the rest in order to catch an earlier train I could 

 not call anyone else to my aid. It might however have been 

 a little grebe, if they are found there. I remember I once had 

 one of these birds alive for some little time, which was caught 

 in a salmon net at Newburn-on-Tyne. Coots and waterhens 

 were plentiful. Three swans kept shyly near the centre of the 

 lake, I was told they were wild swans, but I myself think they 

 were only the mute swan. This bird often wanders into fresh 

 places, I have seen them on the College burn take flight and 

 disappear in the distance. They appeared to have too much 

 plumage for either of the real wild swans. They probably 

 were not placed there but migrated as I have said from some 

 other locality. In addition to the redshanks mentioned above, 

 there were the woodcock, snipe (the latter I set up on my re- 

 turn journey), the stock dove and ring dove, sandpiper, herring 

 gull, pied and grey wagtail and willow wren. Three young 

 moles were captured and restored to their subterranean homes. 

 The ubiquitous lapwings were calling and tumbling about in 

 their usual excited manner. Most of the early summer flowers 

 were in bloom. 



Ranunculus aqnatilis Water Crowfoot 



Caltha pahistris Marsh Marigold 



Cardamine pratensis Lady's Smock 



Barbarea vulgaris Yellow Rocket 



Viola canina Dog Violet 



Viola tricolor Wild Pansy 



Polygala vulgaris Milkwort 



Lychnis diuma Red Campion 



Lychnis vesper tin a White Campion 



Stellaria holostea Greater Stitchwort 



Stellaria graminea Lesser Stitchwort 



Erodiian cicutarium Hemlock Storksbill 



Geranium Jiobertianum Herb Robert 



Ulex Europceus Gorse 



Sarothamnus scoparius Broom 



Vicia Orobus Wood Vetch 



Vicia sepium Bush Vetch 



Vicia Cracca Tufted Vetch 



Alchemilla vulgaris Lady's Mantle 



