316 MR. A. PATTERSON’S NATURAL HISTORY 
April 26th. Nine Land Dotterel ( Eudromias morinellus) 
were seen on the North Denes. 
May 7th. There was no great show of spring migrants 
on Breydon this year. About a dozen Bar-tailed Godwits 
(Limosa lapponica) turned up on the beach with a few Grey 
Plovers on May 7th, and two Kentish Plovers ( JEgialitis 
cantiana ) seen on Breydon on the same date ; Godwits were 
heard overhead on the night of the 8th. 
May nth. Considerable number of Ringed Plovers on 
Breydon, with some Dunlins and a few Sanderlings. The 
water seemed alive with those high-swimming crustaceans, 
Idotea linearis. 
Three adult Wigeon, all fine males, were observed as late 
as May 13th ; they came quite close to me as I sat in the stern 
sheets of my house-boat. 
May 19th. The Swifts ( Cypselus apus) did not put in an 
appearance until this date, when two pairs visited the old 
High Mill (since pulled down). It was a cold bleak day, and 
they were very noisy ; the wind was N. They disappeared 
next day and were not seen again until the 23rd. At a house 
on the North Quay, for many years a resort of these birds, 
one was seen by Mr. Stagg, the occupier, on May 13th, it 
left again almost at once ; but on the 19th several visited 
the spot. 
May 25th. Saw a Dunlin “ worming ” on the very soft 
and slimy ooze at the entrance of Duffell’s drain, at low 
water ; repeatedly running several yards to dip its prey in 
the water at the extreme edge before swallowing it. 
On the same day I saw a very fine example of the Sea 
Angler (Lophius piscatorius ) lying at the Quay side, having 
been taken that morning in a shrimp-net. I estimated its 
weight at a good half-hundredweight. 
May 27th. Dunlins, in full breeding attire, were still to be 
seen on the “ flats.” 
On the same day myriads of small black Flies (probably 
a species of Actor a) floated across Breydon on the early part 
of the ebb ; some Starlings, hovering over the surface, were 
snatching them up, after the fashion of the Gulls. 
