a beautiful night. Notes primarily like 
our birds' but louder.Talk with Keeper.
Kite killed 2 weeks ago. 9 Hawks shot
& trapped in one piece of larch woods.
Badgers, pole cats ("Fidgets"), Carrion Crows,
Jays & Magpies still common. 4000
Rabbits taken on Duke's place last year.
Descend cliff by beautiful path to [?]
Cottage. No birds whatever in these woods
save a robin & Chiff-chaff. Back to
hotel at 6 P.M.
  After dinner walk down around abbey
by lane to river. Aerial flight of Jackdaws,
[female] Redstart in walled orchard. Blackbird
& Robin across river, Wood Pigeon cooing, Sandpiper?
Swifts note resembles Cedar Birds so
closely as to often deceive me.
Quails on path. No insect sounds.
Have seen 4 Butterflies in past
4 days, 3 Cabbage one small brown.
Two kinds of Bats one minute, one
as large as ours.
July 3 Tintern to Wells.
  Save for an hour of cloudiness (1 - 2 P.M.)
and a brisk shower the day was
perfectly clear & as free from haze as
in America. The weather very cool of late.
  Left Tintern by 9.15 A.M. train
reaching Wells at 12.35, making three 
changes of cars by the way.
  Country comparatively level after leaving
the Wye & passing the 4 M. tunnel
under the Severn. The fields glorious
with flowers many new & strange to me.
Saw few birds except Rooks, Starlings
Skylarks & Yellow-hammer. A Shrike
with Red-back and black bar through
eye perched on telegraph wire. No
Lapwings. House Martins collecting 
mud at a puddle by a station &
taking it to their nests.
  Wells. At 9 P.M. started for a walk[.]
Passed half around the Bishop's
palace along a broad walk shaded
by superb elms which dipped their
branches in the waters of the