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British Bird Calendar. 
British Bird Calendar 
Wo hope memljers will take sufficient interest in this feature 
to sena in records from their districts (ohsernations preferred to cut- 
tinig's) of rare visitors, migfation movements, nesting' notes, etc., 
acoording to the season. 
The success of the innovatitjn aepends on the members, as] 
intimated ahove; if records are sent in from all district^;, not only 
will success be secured and the innovation 'become ])ermanent, but 
facts (records') of permanent value will be gathered together. 
While we do not propose to follow any fixed metho>cl, the 
more convenient form will be a short paragraph or bare recoi'd 
with dates. Each record will bear the initials of the sender. A list 
of initials and names will appear at the end of each Vul. — Ed. 
MIGRATION NOTES. 
September 6th. — Three young Swallows still in nest, 
ready to fly; they were a second brood. 
September 11th. — Heard the ChilT-chaff singing. 
Flushed a Spotted Redshank {Tringa erythropus) in the even- 
ing on the shore of the mill pond. An extremely rare bird, 
especially in Hampshire. A cold day with a northerly wind. 
September 13th. — Saw a male Ring Ouzel, evidently 
on migration; also a Land -rail. 
September 18th. — Heard and watched a ChifT-chafl' 
singing in my garden. This was a particularly warm sunnj 
day. 
September 23th. — Heard and saw the Greater Spotted 
Woodpecker. 
September 25th. — Saw five Tree-Pipits {Anthns tri- 
viaJis trivialis) feeding in Matley Bay, near Lyndhurst : also 
about thirty Swallows nearer to Beaulieu. 
September 28th. — One House Martin seen. 
September 30th. — About thirty Swallows at East Eolre. 
P.G., Beaulieu, S. Hants. 
British Bikd MovEMEtNrrs: The wind has been 
northerly and north easterly during mo.st of September, and 
this may account for the scanty numbers of birds on the N.E. 
coast. 
I have not seen a Blackcap, Whitethroat or Lesser 
Whitethroat during September, and only three Willow Wrens. 
Green and Golden Plover with a fev/ Grey, are making 
their way north in flocks and straggling parties. At 5 a.m. 
