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(October 27th and November 7th), both of which had found a 

 dead or wounded Pheasant, on which their last meal had been 

 made. We have had very few Eough-legged Buzzards in Norfolk 

 since October, 1910, and the last visitation was in 1880. When 

 skinning Rough-legged Buzzards, I have observed that the skin 

 of the tarsus will easily peel back to the foot. 



November. 



3rd. — German fleet bombarded Yarmouth, or rather its road- 

 stead. Several Redpolls on alder trees. Four fresh Sky-Larks 

 under the telegraph-wires (Chasen), and a Nightjar,! probably 

 disabled by the same agency, picked up alive at Northrepps 

 (Barclay). 



4th. — Thick fog last night; an adult Gannet dead on the 

 shore (Chasen). 



6th. — Short-eared Owl t at Keswick. 



14th. — W.N.W., 2, at Yarmouth. About eighty Wild Geese, 

 in two flocks, going N.N.W., noisy and flying low, were seen at 

 Smallburgh by Mr. Bird, species not identified. None were 

 detected on Hickling Broad, but no less than six flocks of Wild 

 Swans — believed from their size by Mr. James Vincent to be 

 Bewick's Swans — comprising ten, four, thirty-two, fifty-two, 

 seven, and twenty-eight individuals, as well as four Whooper 

 Swans (one hundred and thirty-seven birds altogether), were seen 

 by him passing over Hickling Broad. All these Swans, like the 

 Geese, were flying west, that is, going against the wind, which 

 was north-west and moderate. But the day before, when they 

 probably started on their journey, it had been very high, not 

 only in England but on the Continent. At Norwich it was W., 

 force 5; on the 13th at Nairn, in Scotland, W., force 7 ; at the 

 Holder, on the coast of Holland, S.W., force 6 ; and in the 

 southern Baltic, W.N.W., force 6 (see map). At Breydon flocks 

 of Wild Swans were also seen coming in from the sea, and then 

 passing west or south-west over the Broad (Jary). At Blakeney I 

 heard from Mr. Pinchin of a flock of about fifty and another of 

 seven, and these also were going west, but further than that the 

 movement was not traced, so it was probably of no very great 

 extent. 



15th. — The next day Mr. Vincent saw two more flocks of 



