228 REDSHANK 
rocks, or in full view of the road, stands bowing fantasti- 
cally on some isolated boulder in a shallow pool, while its 
ringing notes rouse to flight the Gulls, Ringed Plovers, and 
Curlews within hearing. 
The Castletown Redshanks sometimes come up the 
harbour above the town. On 8th October 1901 I saw 
one fly over the houses, and calling loudly, alight on the 
asphalt of one of the courts of the Castletown Tennis 
Club’s ground, which was wet by a heavy shower, and 
which it probably took for a piece of beach. 
On 17th December 1887 at 7 P.M. one was caught at the 
lantern at Langness. 
Like the Heron, the Redshank frequents Langness to its 
very extremity, consisting of two or three almost isolated 
outliers, masses of sharp-edged slate-rock with grassy tops, 
past which on the open side at certain times the tidal 
currents run in powerful and strongly agitated races. It 
is the quieter western side facing Castletown Bay that is 
specially attractive to the Redshanks. The promontory is 
an interesting place, not only for the golf links at its base 
and the ruins on the attached Fort Island, but for the fine 
views of sea and land, from the Chickens to North Barrule, 
which it everywhere commands. 
The species has never been known to breed in Man. 
It is pretty well distributed in Britain, especially about 
estuaries. 
In Ireland it is abundant, though in the breeding season 
more local than at other times; it nests on Lough Neagh 
and the islets in Strangford Lough. Mr. Service says that 
an increased number breed in Kirkcudbrightshire, where it 
is otherwise common, and Gray and Anderson reported it 
as nesting in numerous Wigtownshire localities. It hardly 
nests in Lancashire, except a pair or two at Walney; afew — 
breed at Ravenglass, and numbers on the Solway, and in 
