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east wind which had blown for a month previously no doubt 
made this and other migrants late in arriving. On April 15th 
the first Common Sandpiper was noted; on April 21st the 
Swallow and Willow Wren; on April 22nd a male Redstart. The 
Cuckoo was heard on April 29th. 
On May 4th a Whitethroat was seen, and on this date the 
first House Martins were reported to have returned to a large 
colony. A Whinchat was seen on the 5th, and on May 16th a 
Spotted Flycatcher. On May 27th a nesting-hole of the Great 
Spotted Woodpecker was examined; it contained young fully a 
week old. 
Curlews were unusually late in leaving their upland breeding 
haunts: normally they have left us before August dawns, but 
they were still on the hills above Windermere on August 10th. 
The same delay in quitting their breeding-grounds was noted on 
the eastern side of Westmorland. Possibly the hot and dry 
summer had made food difficult to procure, and caused these 
birds to be more backward than in a more moist season. 
The summer-like weather at the end of September caused 
the Great Tits to utter their spring notes, and the Chaffinches 
to sing. I do not remember hearing Chaffinches sing in this 
district at the fall of the year before. On Oct. 26th the first 
arrival of Fieldfares was noted. 
On April 22nd I saw, near Windermere, two Waxwings; 
they had been seen about the locality for some weeks previously ; 
search after this date failed to reveal their presence. They flew 
together as if paired. 
I have much pleasure in recording, for the first time, the 
nesting of the Great Crested Grebe in “Lakeland.” On a 
certain quiet sheet of water I saw, on April 18th, two pairs of 
these fine birds. One pair brought two young off in safety; the 
other birds were, I believe, also successful in their nesting 
operations, though I did not see the young as I did in the first 
case. I have good reason to suppose that they bred in this 
locality in the two previous seasons. 
A Great Snipe was shot near Shap in the autumn, and was 
subsequently recorded in the ‘ Field.’ 
Two pure white Grouse chicks were hatched from the same 
clutch of eggs near Lazonby. On being handled, they were 
