IN SOUTH-WESTERN NORFOLK. 
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The following week my brother Edward revisited the district ; 
but in the meanwhile a sharp frost had set in, and in nearly all 
parts the Flood was frozen. From our old 1 Register ’ I find that 
on the 15th of February, on the borders of Feltwell Fen, he 
observed the following : — one cock Yellow Hammer (singing), three 
Snipes, a flock of about one hundred Wild Ducks, a flock of about 
twenty Teal, two Wigeons, a flock of about one hundred Pochards, 
as well as a flock composed apparently of Common, Herring and 
Lesser Black-backed Gulls. On the 16th, on the borders of 
Feltwell and Hockwold Fens he saw a Peregrine Falcon, several 
Redwings, a Lesser Redpoll, five Snipes, a Hock of Wild Ducks 
and Teal, and a flock of Gulls mixed as before ; while on higher 
ground there wore Skylarks by the thousand, and two Quails were 
shot. On the 17th there was a very heavy snowfall, and a high 
wind which kept drifting it all day; but in the same tract of 
country he saw a Peregrine Falcon, another Quail, a flock of seven 
Lapwings, three Snipes, a Heron, and a Hock of Gulls. On that 
night and until nearly noon on the next day (18th February), the 
snow-storm continued, but then my brother saw in the same district 
about twenty-live Common and one Jack Snipe, eight Herons, two 
Waterhens, seven Wild Ducks, two Little Grebes, and a Hock of 
Common Gulls. The succeeding night was one of the. coldest that 
had been felt in England for several years, t 
Our next visit to the district was about a month later, when the 
Flood had undergone a visible diminution ; yet there was not 
much difficulty in getting a flat-bottomed boat about, though it had 
to be dragged over such places as the Corkway and Black Dyke 
droves. On the 15th of March, in or on the borders of Feltwell 
and Hockwold Fens, there were noticed, among other commoner birds 
it must be understood, a Merlin, a Hock of Golden Plovers, two 
Snipes, and many pairs of Wild Ducks and Teal. On the 16th, 
on the Fens just named, there were seen a Peregrine Falcon, a flock 
of Lesser Redpolls, a flock of Ring-Plovers, nine Herons, about 
thirty Snipes, eight Coots, many pairs of Wild Ducks and Teal, a 
flock of eight or nine Pintails, many flocks of Wigeons, and a 
* This Quail was found almost covered over by the drifting snow, and it 
could not have stirred from its shelter, under a turnip-leaf, since the 
beginning of the storm. 
t At Elveden the thermometer was registered at 6 o° F. 
