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1825. 
January 9th and 10th, on these two days the mercury in my 
barometer stood 30/o inches. In a barometer whose scale was 
accurate, the height would probably have been SOi®. The weather 
all the time was cloudy, and a small quantity of rain fell. 
January very mild and frequent rain. February, and to middle 
of March, much Avet weather; from middle of March dry, and 
cold nights. 
April 5th, Lesser Pettychaps appears: 7th, Wryneck app. : 
10th, Kedstart app., and Yellow Wren: 17th, Field-lark app.: 
19th, Nightingale app. : 21st, Cuckoo app. ; Oak-hark peels : 
22nd, SwalloAV app., and Sedge Warbler: fine shoAvers. Dry 
Aveather from the middle of l\Iarch to April 22nd, with the 
exception of tAA'O or three trifling showers. 24th, Blackcap app. : 
27 th, White throat appears. 
May 2nd, first Mackarel at NorAvich : 3rd, Swift app. 
In the month of May, 1825, tAvo pair of Short-eared Owls were 
found sitting on their eggs, on the ground, four eggs in each nest, 
on the property of the Rev. Robert Ilamond, at Congham, in 
Norfolk, ‘Norwich Chronicle,’ May 21. Mr. Isaac Harvey has a 
Mergus serrator, and also a living brood of four Bearded Titmice 
coming into feather. 
October 21st, a Stormy Petrel Avas picked up in the streets of 
Norwich after a gale of Avind (Hunt). 28th, Mr. Whitaker sent 
me a fine specimen of the Greater Butcher-bird, killed at 
30th, saAV tAVO Martins in this parish. 
1826. 
January 9th, Young Geese hatched by Mr. Mills, at Ruishall. 
April 9th, Wryneck app. : 11th, Blackcap app. : 12th, to this 
time the Aveather has been dry for some Aveeks, Avith several cold 
nights, hut the days have been Avarm, and vegetation is forAvard ; 
on the 12th there was a fine rain; YelloAV Wren app. : 15th, Redstart 
app.; Field-lark app.: 17th, Nightingale app.; Oak-bark peels: 
18th, Swallow app. : 21st, Cuckoo app. : 24th, Whitethroat app. 
May 3rd, first Mackarel in Norwich market ; the Aveather cold, 
Avith shoAvers: 14th, Swift appears: 23rd, I took the girt of the 
largest Willow tree in the Beck meadoAV, near the bridge, and 
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