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reported this year—feeding on haws at Haddiscoe Dam. Last 
year only one was noted, and I think one the year before. 
17th. — Over five hundred Pochards on Hickling Broad 
(Bird). 
19th.—That Barn-Owls are erratic in their time of breeding 
is well known, and therefore it was not surprising to find that an 
old elm-tree at Keswick contained young ones. Not many weeks 
after they had flown the bough snapped off, when it was found 
to be hollow for fifteen feet, the aperture being packed from end 
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Littte Aux (Mergulus alle). 
to end with old Jackdaws’ and Owls’ nests. It was also during 
this month (p.u.) that a young Barn-Owl was brought to Mr. 
Gunn, with a message that the hole it came from contained 
three dead nestlings. 
22nd.—A White-fronted Goose shot at Hast Ruston (M. Bird) 
and two days before one was brought down at Morston. 
26th.—A late Whimbrel still at Wells (P. Hamond). 
28th.—S.W.4. A Nutcracker seen at Gunton, near Lowestoft, 
