AtJTtJMN NOTES FROM THE NORFOLK COAST. 145 



light to calm ; hot. 6th, fine and hot, W.— N. W., light to calm ; 

 thick white mist over fresh marshes at evening, cleared at night. 

 7th, fine and hot, N.E., light. 8th, blazing hot; wind light, 

 N.W. and by E. to S. at night, as it did yesterday (N.B., the 

 wind has probably blown from S. during the last three nights). 

 9th, bright and hot. What we wanted was a fresh N.W. breeze 

 all night ; and we never got it. 



Small birds, as might be expected, were conspicuous by their 

 absence. On the 2nd there were a few Larks, but no Wheatears 

 or Pipits, and no birds in the scrub save one or two Linnets. On 

 the 3rd two Wheatears about the beach, very few Larks, one 

 Linnet, no Pipits. 5th. — On this day a few birds had dropped 

 in. A few Wheatears about the beach and at the Point ; a flock 

 of Linnets feeding on the seed-heads of the docks on the 

 beach ; two Ray's Wagtails on the beach ; a Reed Bunting and 

 a Willow Wren in the scrub, and a skulking Song Thrush in the 

 grass-clumps and bushes on the beach. Sand Martins in the 

 harbour on 3rd and 5th. Many Swallows and Martins hawking 

 low over the marsh, flooded by the high tide, in front of the 

 village on the 2nd. 6th. — Three or four Willow Wrens in the 

 scrub ; some flocks of Linnets and a few Meadow Pipits. 8th. — A 

 few Meadow Pipits, one in the scrub, and one Willow Wren 

 secured by another collector : I saw none. 



Kingfishers seem to come down to the salt-marshes at this 

 season; I saw two together near Morston on the 3rd, one in the 

 watch-house creek on the 5th, and two towards Salthouse (in the 

 reclaimed marsh) on the 7th. Of hawks I only saw a Merlin on 

 the wing in Blakeney Marsh on the 3rd, and on the 9th, inland, 

 between Morston and Stiffkey, a Buzzard of some kind on the 

 wing, followed by Rooks : it was light brown, and very pale 

 underneath. The Rev. Julian G. Tuck kindly wrote me word of 

 a Honey Buzzard he had seen in the flesh, shot in Cambridgeshire 

 on October 2nd, and remarks, " Possibly it was the identical bird 

 you saw," I having hazarded a guess that my bird was of this 

 species ; and indeed I do not think it could have been anything 

 else, although I never saw the Honey Buzzard on the wing 

 before, to my knowledge. 



Perhaps the most remarkable feature about the wader 

 migration on the east coast in the early autumn of 1890 was the 

 abundance of the Curlew Sandpiper. On the 2nd and 3rd 



