1909.
Oct. 1 [October 1, 1909]
(No 5)
were uncovered and alive with birds. While it would
undeniably be the wildest kind of a guess to suggest
any definite figures to represent the total number of birds
seen in the forenoon I do not hesitate to assert that
it could not have been less than fifty thousand and
probably was double that. Certainly this estimate is not
an exaggeration if Rooks and Starlings are included and
I believe it would hold good were they to be excluded.
It does not include any birds smaller than Starlings.
Of the total number of birds to which it relates at
least one half were Gulls and of those more than
one half were Lesser Black-heads, by far the most
numerously represented species of Gull along this stretch
of coast, especially in the grass fields and pastures.
Of Limicoline birds the Lapwings were decidedly the most
abundant. I saw more of them here then anywhere else in England.