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April. 



2nd. — Jackdaws going seawards (Patterson). 



7th. — Mr. Pashley, to whom these annual notes are always 

 indebted, to-day announced the advent of four magnificent Cranes 

 on their spring migration, which halted near the Glaven, and 

 remained all the forenoon of one day (7th) in the same spot, and 

 that within two hundred yards of a gang of men on the marsh side 

 of Wiverton bank. Mr. Pashley had a good view of them as they 

 were flying eastwards, and they were next reported as visiting a 

 piece of water near the sea at Weybourne, where their great size 

 attracted attention. They were again watched for several hours, 

 and subsequently seen at Runton, after which they took their 

 departure. We have not had a visit from a Crane since April, 

 1888, but the number of occurrences is now brought up to seven- 

 teen, of which only two were in the autumn. 



16th. — A Spoonbill on Breydon since the 8th (Patterson), 

 which, like the Cranes, escaped. 



May. 



2nd. — A Short-eared Owl's nest with five eggs (but said to 

 have originally contained seven) discovered in a field of rushes 

 not far from the sea in the vicinity of one of our Broads. 



5th. — Only one Reeve seen on the Broads up to this date 

 (M. Bird). 



16th. — Six hundred Bar-tailed Godwits, in round numbers, 

 and Grey Plovers, with a good many Knots, and fifty Whimbrel, 

 on Breydon mud-flats (A. Patterson and Chambers), and a similar 

 show of waders at Cley and Blakenny (H. Pashley) marked a 

 strong May passage, hopeful for the return in autumn. Mr. 

 Patterson believes that the smaller waders are in search of 

 Corophium longicornis, a small crustacean which pushes its way 

 out of the mud ; but whatever they eat is difficult of detection after- 

 wards. Simultaneously with the northward movement of waders, 

 two Grebes, supposed to be Red-necked Grebes, were on Wroxham 

 Broad (Capt. Sparrow), and Pied Flycatchers were in evidence at 

 Cley, Holt, Northrepps, Sutton, and Framingham (S. Bligh). 



18th. — Lady Lothian has a hybrid Guinea-fowl, the produce 

 of an egg laid at Saxthorpe. It is a very large bird, with some 

 white on the breast, and a good deal of slate-colour about the 



