CHAPTER V 
THE THIRD SEASON (1920) .* RECORD OF 
OBSERVATIONS 
After the preliminary work described in Chap. IV 
my next visit to the common was on the evening of 
Saturday, May 15. I was accompanied by Mr, 
Ward Price of the Paris Daily Mail , Mr. Ronald 
Walker, of March, and the two Simmondses, father 
and son, who it will be remembered are local 
residents, and for whose consistent efforts and 
interest I shall always be grateful. 
The first find of importance was a Linnet’s 
nest containing three eggs and an egg of Cuckoo B, 
which during the two previous seasons had de- 
posited, to our knowledge, six eggs in this area, all 
in nests of the Meadow Pipit. 
But at 8 p.m.* young Frankie Simmonds found 
a Meadow Pipit’s nest (No. 1 pair) containing two 
eggs of the fosterer and an egg of Cuckoo A, giving 
us the extreme satisfaction of knowing that she had 
* Summer time, i.e. one hour in advance of Greenwich time, 
is used throughout. 
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