Chester to Conway.
1909
Oct. 1 [October 1, 1909]
  Cloudy & cool with light wind.
  While on our way from Chester to Conway (Wales) by
rail this morning we saw from the car windows more large
birds than have ever before come under my observation within
the same space of time (unless, perhaps, when I was shooting
with Cory at Banana Creek, Florida in 188 ). Most of them
were seen along a stretch of coast six or eight miles in
length where the railroad skirts the shore of a large,
shallow bay of the Irish Sea. Here the low-lying grassy
fields and pastures on both sides of the railway embankment
were literally crowded with birds, chiefly Gulls of several species
and Lapwings. One grassfield, not exceeding five acres in
extent, must have contained at least three thousand Gulls, crowded so
closely together in places that they looked like broad banks
of snow. In another there were not less than seven or
eight hundred Lapwings, scattered over an area of eight or ten