1891.
July 1
(No 2)
Trip to Raglan Castle.
England
Raglan. - After lunch at a small in in the village
I walked down the street and turned into a meadow
pasture where swine were grazing and Rooks and
Starlings feeding on the turf. Thrushes were singing in
a cluster of evergreens and I heard the woit of a
Redstart and soon after saw the bird, a [female], perched
on the dead branch of a yew by a wall in which its
nest was probably concealed.
  When we reached Raglan Castle at 2.30 P.M.
the rain was pouring steadily but half-an-hour later
the sun came out clear & hot and there was a
grand burst of bird music for the beautiful old
ruin with its masses of ivy and surrounding elms,
oak, yews and hawthorns proved alive with birds.
Jackdaws, Swifts, Swallows, House Sparrows, and Spotted
Flycatchers were nesting in the crevices of its
crumbling walls; several Willow Warblers, Robins,
Thrushes and a Chiff-Chaff were singing in the
trees and on the turf within the [?] I saw
four Wagtails, two Pied, the other two Yellow beneath
& I think Gray Wagtails. A note which I have not
heard before was uttered frequently by several birds
concealed among the ivy. From the general character
of the note and a glympse which I had at one 
of the birds I concluded that they were probably
Tree Sparrows a species which I have not hitherto 
met.