England.
Niton, Isle of Wight.
1909
Aug. 26 [August 26, 1909]
  During a drive to God's Hill Church and to Ventnor I
saw immense numbers of birds. One flock of House Sparrows, in
bushes by the roadside near a grain field, was larger than any
I ever met with in America. They rose in a perfect cloud,
filling the air like a swarm of gnats.
  Practically every large garden and small grove of trees we passed
had its Robin in full song.
  Wood Pigeons were flying over the field and a dozen or 
more Stock (?) Doves circling about a cliff with an equal 
number of Jackdaws. The flight call of the Jackdaw is
heu, heu, not unlike that of our Purple Martin.
Call note of Jackdaws
  We saw two Kestrels. One alighted on the ground, in a 
pasture, very near the road where I had a fine view of
him. He looked and flew much like our Sparrow Hawk but
appeared much larger of course.
Kestrels
  I am surprised to find that an open hogshead, filled
with rain water, at the rear of our house, is literally swarming
with what I take to be Mosquito larvae. There must be thousands
of them, yet I have neither seen nor heard a mature mosquito
in England this summer. They look exactly like our mosquito
'wrigglers" & I do not see how they can be anything else.
If they really are that and if they are allowed to mature the
people at this house have serious trouble in store for them.
Mr. Meeson, the Essex farmer, whom I met on the Ivernia
told me that he could not remember ever seeing a mosquito
in England yet he said that fever & chills is a rather common
scourge of the people living in his neighborhood. It is difficult
to reconcile all these facts & experiences.
Mosquitoes
  Later. - This evening a mosquito came about me & I killed & examined
it. It had green stripes on the back & a proboscis cleft into three parts.
Mrs. Green admits that mosquitoes are sometimes rather numerous