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was entered as April 22nd instead of May 22nd, the latter being 

 quite a normal date. 



10th. — Cormorants nesting in Norfolk. About this date I 

 received information that a pair of Cormorants — perhaps the 

 same which had been seen on Wroxham Broad — had taken up 

 their quarters on Lord Hastings' lake at Melton, which is nine 



Cormorants in Norfolk, 1914. 



miles from the sea. After little more than a week's residence, 

 they were discovered to have taken possession of a deserted 

 Heron's nest situated on a large alder tree on an island in the 

 lake. To this nest,t which was quite forty feet from the ground, 

 they at once began making additions, and by the second week 

 in June it was evident to those on the spot that they had eggs. 

 At the close of the month four young Cormorants were hatched, 

 and, by order of Lord Hastings, strictly protected. A tent was 

 erected near the lake for Miss E. L. Turner, by whom they were 

 several times visited and photographed, and an admirable study 

 of their habits from her pen was afterwards contributed to 

 'Country Life' (September 19th, 1914) and 'British Birds' (viii. 



