NOTES ON HERONEIES. 451 
unimpaired numbers in old-established Lincolnshire heronries, 
also in a few fresh localities.” 
The above is all that I have learnt from published notes on 
Lincolnshire Heronries, so it may be of interest to give, as far as 
Tecan, the most recent information on the nesting of these birds 
in the county. During the early spring of this year (1908) I 
visited four existing heronries in the county, received news of a 
fifth, and visited also the site of the Swanpool heronry, which 
appears from ‘ Yarrell’ to have existed in 1884. If I am right 
in identifying this ‘‘Swanpool”’ with the piece of water over- 
hung with trees, known by that name, close to Lincoln, I can 
state that a heronry no longer exists there, but the one in 
Skellingthorpe Wood, less than three miles away, is still 
tenanted. During the last three years the birds have shifted 
their quarters in this large wood, and when I visited them on 
March 10th this year I counted about twelve nests, but fancy 
that only about seven pairs were breeding, sitting having 
evidently commenced. 
On March 17th the heronry in Evedon Wood, Haverholme, 
was visited, where I found eighteen or twenty pairs of birds 
nesting. I am told by one who knows this colony well that 
the birds have not decreased much during the last twenty 
years. 
Some birds from the Manby heronry, which, as mentioned 
above, was broken up by the felling of trees about 1870, appear 
to have shifted their quarters two or three miles to the north to 
Rowland Plantation, near Appleby Station. This year, on 
March 27th, rather more than twelve pairs of birds appeared to 
be breeding there, the nests being placed on the tops of high 
Scotch firs. Owing to the thickness of these firs I found it 
hard to count the occupied nests, but I saw at least sixteen 
birds, and others probably escaped observation. 
A heronry also exists in Newball Wood, Langworth, about 
seven miles north-east of Lincoln. This colony is not men- 
tioned.in the above lists, so perhaps it is of somewhat recent 
origin. It has been known to me for about seven years, six or 
seven pairs of birds nesting there annually during that time. 
I Have no knowledge of the date when the colony was established, 
but the number of birds seems to have lessened of late. One 
