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April 5th, began to sow Barley : 9th, Lesser Pettychaps app. : 
10th, Wryneck app. : 11th, Pield-lark app. : 13th, finished sowing 
Barley : 14th, Blackcap app. ; IGth, Yellow Wren app. ; Nightin- 
gale app.: 18th, Oak-bark peels: 19th, Swallow app.: 20th, 
Piedstart app. : 22nd, Cuckoo app. : 24th, Whitethroat app. : 
27th, saw a Grasshopper Warbler in the hedge of tbe Beck 
meadow. 
May 9th, House Martin appears * : 19th, Swift appears. 
August 1st, Yellow Wren commences its autumn song. 
December 25th, barometer 28/o inches. A flood. 
1822. 
February 7th, saw a flock of about thirty Siskins in the Alders 
at the front of the house. The first part of the winter was 
remarkably wet and windy, but the latter part mild and dry, 
indeed the whole of it has been mild, singularly so, the ground 
never having been covered with snow, and scarcely any frost 
(February 19 th). 
April 9th, Yellow Wren app. : 13th, Bedstart app. : 14th, 
Field-lark app. : 15th, Wryneck app. : 17th, Cuckoo app. : 18th, 
Nightingale : 19th, Whitethroat app. : 20th, Blackcap app. : 
23rd, Grasshopper Warbler app. : 24th, Swallow appears. 
July 13th, Mr. Oldershaw began to reap Talavera Wheat : 24th, 
I began to reap Wheat. 
August 17th, finished harvest. 
October 25th, saw a Swallow. 
1823. 
January 29th, a Sea Eagle was shot in the wood at Gawdy Hall, 
length 2 ft. 11 in., breadth C ft. 4 in., weight 91^ lbs. t The winter 
Avas very severe, and the months of February and March Avet and 
cold, Avith a considerable fall of snoAV in the middle of IMarch. 
March 31st, Lesser Pettychaps appears. 
April 5th, Wryneck and YelloAv Wren appear : 9th, finished 
* See foot-note at page 241. 
t This bird, Avhicli is still preserved at Gawdy Hall, is in immature 
plumage, in which stage alone has it been known to occur in Norfolk (see 
Lubbock’s ‘Fauna of Norfolk,’ ed. 2, p. 19, note). — T. S. 
