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Armiti: The Birds of Rydal. 



Common Buzzard. Buteo buteo (L.). Permanent resident. 

 Has nested for the last few years in the parish. Its fine wild 

 call may frequently be heard as it floats observantly above the 

 rocky ground, or from (apparently) the last scattered trees on 

 the precipitous Scar. 



Peregrine Falcon. Falco peregrinus Tunst. Occasional 

 visitant. The Rev. E. Reynolds, master of the foxhounds, meets 

 with it on the fells from time to time. It formerly nested on 

 Dove Crag' (just outside the parish), where, I am sorry to say, 

 its last nest was harried. 



The .Merlin is not recorded for the parish. I have seen a pair > 

 in March 1S87, on the small Grouse moor over Hawkshead Hall, 

 where a friend later met with it. 



Common Kestrel. Cerchneis tinnunculus (L.). Permanent 

 resident. After the Buzzard our commonest Hawk. Its old 

 nest-station on Gate Crag", after being" regularly harried, has 

 been vacated. 



Common Cormorant. Phalacrocorax carbo (L.). Occa- 

 sional visitant. Seen by myself nth October 1901, and by Mr. 

 Granville Sharp in the previous year. 



Canada Goose. Branta canadensis (L.). Resident. 

 According- to common report this species was introduced on 

 Grasmere Lake some years ago. A pair now breed regularly 

 every year on an island in Rydal Lake. With the goslings they 

 spend the autumn and early winter between the two lakes ; and 

 after disappearing for a time from both waters, the solitary pair 

 return to Rydal punctually at the beginning of April, when the 

 honking of the male bird becomes frequent. 



Grey Lag Goose. Anser anser (L.). Geese are heard 

 flying north regularly in February and March. Mr. H. E. 

 Rawson considers them to be the Grey Lag. 



Mallard. Anas boschas (L. ). Permanent resident. Nests 

 on the islands and, I believe, in the steep wood. The keeper 

 thinks that the drakes have a lighter body than the usual Mallard. 



Wigeon. Mareca penelope (L.). Occasional winter visitant. 

 I have picked it up dead on the marsh at the lake head, and the 

 keeper has come across it once. 



Common Teal. Nettion crecca (L. ). An occasional visitant 

 only now, I believe. At least, I have seen a pair but once. Mr. 

 Wykeham-Martin found a nest, however, on the lake. 



Pochard. Nyroca ferina (L. ). Winter visitant. Generally 

 considered scarce, but has been frequent on the lake these last 



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