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6th. — Moore and I went to photograph the Black-headed 

 Gulls on their nests, and were most successful. I never thought 

 they would face the camera ; as the marsh took us up nearly to 

 our middles, and we had to lash sticks on to the tripod, leaving 

 the camera several feet above the water ; then we screened it 

 with green boughs of birch, and worked with one hundred yards 

 of fine Trout-line. We got some beauties. 



8th. — Moore tried to photograph a Turtle-Dove on her nest, 

 but, though he waited five hours for the bird to come back, and 

 the camera was so well concealed that three boys going to bathe 

 passed within a couple of yards of it, and never noticed it, yet 

 the bird would not return. They are most difficult birds to 

 photograph on the nest. 



10th. — Metcalfe got three lovely photographs of a Common 

 Sandpiper on her nest, in tbree different positions. 



12th. — Went with Moore to photograph the nest and eggs of 

 the Great Crested Grebe. I am glad to say these birds have 

 increased considerably. If only we had had another ten feet of 

 pneumatic tubing we should have got the old bird on the nest. 

 We had the keeper up a tree ready to whistle to us when she 

 settled, and she came close up several times; but most unfortu- 

 nately she could just see our heads above a bank, where we were 

 lying with our legs in the water. We were miles from home, and 

 had to get back that night ; and so we failed through want of a 

 few feet of tubing. Found a Grasshopper-Warbler's nest with 

 young. 



19th.— Moore and I made a day's journey to get a Reed 

 Warbler on her nest. Were most successful. Got her in four 

 different positions coming on to the nest. I believe these, like 

 the Redshank and Lapwing, are unique. Found several nests ; 

 some just finished, some with four fresh eggs, some with hard-set 

 eggs. Also Moore got a very pretty photo of a Pheasant on her 

 nest, using a long-focus lens. Saw a pair of Tufted Ducks, but 

 had no time to look for the nest. 



23rd. — Went down into Holderness for a night to enquire 

 into the ruthless destruction that has been going on amongst our 

 last remaining colony of Lesser Terns. While the watcher was 

 on, appointed by the County Council, the birds increased in 

 number; but now the trippers, who come over by steamer from 



