ROUGH NOTES IN EAST SUSSEX IN 1908. 349 
trunk about half-way up a larch. So up I went, and with 
some trouble reached the nest, while the keeper contentedly sat 
and smoked below. Putting in my hand I felt eges; then climb- 
ing higher, I could feast my eyes on five beautiful eggs, which I 
took. They were hard-set, and took about half-an-hour apiece 
to clean—it could not be called ‘‘ blowing”—in spite of the 
man’s assurances that they would be fresh, as the Sparrowhawk 
never laid less than six or seven. Later on he found another 
nest on the same beat containing young. 
We afterwards visited a wood bordering the high road, where 
the keeper told me there were Long-eared Owls, which he 
said had already safely brought off a brood. I flushed one in 
a fir-tree from a ragged old heap of fir-needles that might 
have once been a nest. Our attention was attracted by the 
screams of a Blackbird to another which was sitting up in a 
tree; he, disgusted by our admiration, flew away as well. The 
man also told me of a Kingfisher’s nest from which, I believe, 
a brood was successfully reared. The Deer in the park consist 
of Red and Fallow Deer. 
