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to Breydon in the afternoon, being joined on the 25th by the 
third. One had a beautiful fawn breast and a flowing mop 
of a crest. 
April 25th. A Ring Ousel (Turdus torquatus) struck 
a telegraph wire, near Breydon, and was killed. 
On April 26th, a fresh example of Jago’s Goldsinny 
( Ctenolabrus rupestris ) was brought me by a shrimper. Length 
3f inches ; it smelt like celery. A Ballan Wrass ( Labrus 
maculatus) of the green variety, 9 inches in length, was taken in 
a draw-net next day. 
On April 27th we had a severe thunder-storm, when the 
spire of St. Nicholas was struck by lightning, and some timber 
inside ignited. Smoke poured out for some little time, and 
some burning took place, but the exertions of the firemen, 
who ran up the corkscrew staircase with 700 feet of fire-hose, 
speedily extinguished the blaze. From out the ventilators 
the terrified Jackdaws wildly dashed, leaving their young, 
many of which must have perished, for their total was a small 
one in the autumn ; the old birds flew excitedly over the 
heads of the thousands of spectators gathered around. Some 
twelve pairs roosted in the tall trees adjoining the church 
that night, and a few ventured into the spire next day. I find 
this spring (1910) there has been a gathering together again of 
the clans, on nesting duties bent. 
May 8th. I was much amused by the great trouble taken 
by a Whimbrel in vain endeavour to make a large Flounder 
eligible for swallowing. It had taken it in a puddle left around 
one of the stumps protruding at low water. After quite half 
an hour of it, the disgusted bird dropped it. 
May 10th. Saw my first Swift. 
An Ocean Pipe-fish ( Nerophis cequoreus) brought in by a 
shrimper on May nth. 
On the same date I saw a flock of thirty Godwits ( Limosa 
lapponica), some of them in the full “red” plumage, on 
Breydon. 
American Rose Perch ( Scorpcena dactyloptera). A 6-inch 
example sent me from Lowestoft on May 13th. On this same 
date I was interested in seeing Breydon alive with spring 
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