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3 5th. — Wind W., moderate. Between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. ,a 

 good many flocks of Sky Larks, mingled with a few Tit Larks, 

 Wheatears, and Wagtails, were seen coming off the sea at Over- 

 strand, apparently flying due west, i.e. against the wind, which 

 direction was changed to north-west when they made land. They 

 then followed the course of the cliff, rounding the highest hills, 

 and frequently resting as if tired. The flocks kept by them- 

 selves, and each averaged about thirty-five larks. This move- 

 ment had probably been going on several days before it was 

 noticed. 



16th. — W., moderate. More flocks of Sky Larks passing in the 

 morning along the cliff in a north-westerly direction. 



17th. — W. Larks passing as before against the wind. Hoo- 

 poe at Caister (B. Dye). 



18th. — Grey Phalarope on New Buckenham Common (J. 

 Cole). Hoopoe at Brandon (W. Howlett). 



21st. — Hoopoe at Southrepps (H. Cole). 



22nd. — Between 7.40 a.m. and 8.15 a.m. at least 1500 House 

 Martins passed Overstrand, going S S.E., all of them close 

 under the lee of the cliff, where they were sheltered from the 

 wind, which was north. Between 8.15 and 8.30 more than half 

 of them came back again in an almost continuous straggling 

 flock. The wind was very light, but at 12.30 a storm arose, 

 which may have been the cause of these feathered barometers 

 being so extraordinarily restless. 



28th. — A walk through the bushes at Cley revealed no birds 

 (wind W.N.W., moderate) ; but in the course of the day a Red- 

 necked Phalarope and a Red-necked Grebe were brought in to 

 Mr. Pashley's establishment, and a boy on the muds got a 

 Sandwich Tern. Not a single Thrush in the scrub, which, at 

 the end of October, is sometimes packed with them. 



October. (Prevailing wind South-west.) 



1st.— Immature female Little Bittern shot on Horsey Broad 

 (E. Daily Press). 



5th. — Fork-tailed Petrel on Breydon (Sir S. Crossley). 



12th. — N. A Sabine's Gull, in the same state of plumage as 

 those shot in Wales, and possibly a remnant of that flock, killed 

 at Cley (H. Pashley). October is always the month in which it 



