BLAKENEY POINT IN 1913. 
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The Committee have not seen their way to entertain other 
applications for sites on the Beach or Sand-hills, but a few 
small huts and temporary tents on the strip of ground to the 
East of the Blakeney Channel (the Carnsor) have been 
sanctioned. 
They have, however, granted permission to the Trustees of 
the Cley and Blakeney Bank (which protects the reclaimed 
marshes from the tidal waters) to dig mud and turf, for the 
upkeep of their bank, from the adjacent saltings of the National 
Trust property. 
It may be added that the ground on the Marrams, on which 
the Watch House and the adjacent flagstaff stand, forms an 
enclave not included in the property of the National Trust. 
Bird Life. 
The breeding ground of the Terns and other sea birds was 
watched during the spring and summer months — the arrange- 
ment of the last twelve years by which the services of Mr. 
R. J. Pinchen were retained as Watcher under the Blakeney 
and Cley Wild Birds Protection Society being continued. 
Whilst the birds arrived in numbers fully up to expectation, 
we are sorry to report that the colony did not thrive as it has 
done in recent years. A great many of the young birds died of 
starvation as a consequence of the late arrival of the whitebait, 
so that the number reared was much smaller than it should 
have been. The experience at the neighbouring breeding 
ground at Wells closely resembled our own, and there seems 
no doubt that the cause was the same in both cases, viz., 
defective nutrition. 
A similar heavy mortality among the Terns breeding on the 
Forvie Sands at the mouth of the Ythan, Aberdeenshire, is 
the subject of an interesting article by Mr. A. Rudolf Galloway 
in the “ Aberdeen Free Press” for December 27th, 1913. The 
Terns in 1912 suffered much in the same way as the Blakeney 
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