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late summer. 10th. Could only see three together. 11th. Two. 

 12th. None. 13th. Two and one young one (55°). 16th. Two. 

 18th. Numbers. Since the 9th I could not see more than three 

 together, and on some cold, wet days none at all. I think they 

 stay in their holes in such wet, cold weather as we have had, or 

 only come out for a short time in the day. I almost always go 

 to observe them about 6 or 7 p.m. To-night — a nice and warmer 

 evening — up to 7 p.m. the whole colony seemed to be out, and 

 some young with them. I should think there were over forty in 

 the air, and they screamed a little. They have hardly screamed 

 at all this summer, and I had not heard them since the 9th. 

 19th. Some ; screamed. 22nd. Eight or ten. 24th. About a 

 score, and quite noisy in the sunny evening ; some young out. 

 25th. About a dozen. 29th. Two, and young. 



24th. — Whimbrel heard passing west about 8 p.m. 



28th. — Walked on the tow-path from Lower Heyford, along 

 the Cherwell Valley to Aynho Station. The valley seemed one 

 long lake. Machines of all kinds and haycocks peeped out of 

 the water at intervals. There were hundreds, perhaps thousands, 

 of Peewits along the flood-edge. Some Ducks and Herons and 

 a Common Sandpiper were seen, though it was impossible to 

 search for small waders. I also saw a Wheatear. 



30th. -A " Holly Blue." 



September 5th. — News of a Golden Plover at Eollright 

 yesterday. 



6th. — Two Land-Rails flushed out of oats being cut. 



7th. — A Eed-backed Shrike seen. A very few Meadow-Pipits 

 in roots ; none on 2nd. Another Land-Rail. 



9th. — Two Land-Rails. A good many Pipits — about a hundred 

 in one bit of roots. 



10th. — A good many Martins and some Swallows already 

 gone. 



19th. — Some meadows from which the floods has at last run 

 off are covered with mud ; on one of them near King's Sutton 

 were hundreds of Peewits, with Rooks and a few Crows. 



21st. — Saw a male Ring-Ouzel between here and Milton. 



24th. — At the junction of the Sor brook and Cherwell near 

 Adderbury a great number of Peewits were feeding in two 

 meadows. I counted parts of the flocks, and think there 



