a pair of Herons (A. [Ardea cinerea) with
four young in the nest, from the
heronry at Eaton Park; three young
Kestrels huddled close together with both 
parents; and three Least Greebes [sic] in winter
plumage one asleep with the feet drawn
up on the flanks (see Saunder's manual).
A female Pintail asleep is also very
fine. The eggs are in sets, each set
being kept in a little round [?]
box with glass cover.
  In the window of a taxidermist's
(Mr. Thompson's) shop on Frodsham St. is
a finely mounted Otter climbing a rock
with a trout in its mouth and two
Curlew exceptionally well done.
  To Chester Park in evening. Hear my 
first real concert of British birds &
identify Blackbirds, Throstles, Chiff Chaff,
Spotted Flycatcher, & Ring Dove. A
Corn Crake, my first, calling crex, crex
crex in a field.
June 25. Chester
  Cloudy and sultry with dark
lowering clouds and heavy showers
at frequent intervals but no thunder.
  Spent the morning at the
Grosvenor Museum looking at the
birds and talking with Mr. Newstead
who appears to have a good knowledge
of the local air-fauna. He is a
self-educated man, a Norfolk farmer's
son "not considered of much
account, Sir, on account of a lack
of good birth Sir" as he frankly
& somewhat pathetically told me.
In the evening went to Grosvenor
Park, a beautiful place on the
banks of the Dee. Several Thrushes
and one Blackbird singing there.
Heard a sharp chirp, very like
that of our cardinal, in the
shrubbery. (This I afterwards found
to be the common chirp of the
Robin.)