854 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Since then the watcher has been on duty each year, with 
the result that in 1908, as early as May 28th, about 900 
Common Terns’ eggs were counted, and probably between 400 
and 500 pairs nested.” 
The watcher’s diary gives the following information as to 
the nesting of the birds which appeared in great numbers, and 
the return of the Black-headed Gulls to their old nesting site 
in Mow Creek after an absence of 70 years is of especial interest. 
Ring Plovers’ and Redshanks’ nests with eggs were found 
on 18th May when the watcher went on duty, and the first 
hatching of the latter took place on the 23rd of that month. 
The first Lesser Terns’ nest was seen on the 19th May, and 
that of the Common Tern on the 20th. On the 28th May the 
watcher counted 896 Common Terns’ eggs. Young Lesser 
Terns were seen on 10th June, and Common Terns on the 
nth. A Roseate Tern was seen on 19th June and young 
Sheld-ducks on the 27th. A Sandwich Tern and a party of 
six Black Terns were seen on 25th July. The watcher 
reports that he found eleven nests of the Black-headed Gull, 
but that “ there were more birds scattered about.” 
It is a matter for great satisfaction that the fate of this 
interesting nesting site is placed beyond the risk of casual 
subscriptions by the beneficent act of the Earl of Leicester. 
Breydon Society. — No details of the work of this import- 
ant Society are given in the Report, but it is known that the 
presence of a watcher on the water has had most beneficial 
results, and it is with extreme regret that we read as 
follows: “It is obvious that without further subscriptions 
it will be impossible to continue the watching of Breydon 
during the whole of the present close time, and it need 
scarcely be mentioned how disastrous it would be if the 
watcher has to be withdrawn during August, even if not 
before then.” The due protection of Breydon is a matter 
of more than local interest, and an appeal for help to 
Naturalists beyond the immediate neighbourhood surely 
would meet with a favourable response. No extracts are 
given in the Report from the watcher’s diary, which is much 
