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NATURE NOTES 
Within an area of a mile from the house I have noticed the following birds 
and found many of their nests : blackcap, bullfinch, carrion-crow, chiffchaff, 
sandpiper, snipe, cormorant, creeper, curlew, cuckoo, dipper, fieldfare, gold- 
finch, grasshopper warbler, green woodpecker, grey wagtail, heron, hawfinch, 
jackdaw, jay, kingfisher, land-rail, whitethroat and lesser whitelhroat, linnet, 
long-tailed lit, martin, moorhen, nightjar, partridge, pheasant, owl (brown), 
plover, redstart, ring-ousel, rook, skylark, sparrow-hawk, stonechat, seagull, 
starling, titlark, wheatear, wild duck, reed-warbler, garden-warbler, siskin and 
sand-martin. Crossbills occasionally visit Trefriw and the golden oriole has 
been seen at Llanrwst. As an example of the perseverance of some birds in 
nesting 1 may quote the following : A pair of spotted flycatchers built in our 
summer-house, and laid three eggs, but objecting to the lawn-mower, deserted 
immediately. We took the eggs, and after about five days removed the nest, 
whereupon the pair built a new nest promptly, in exactly the same spot. The 
hen laid five eggs, and evidently the birds had overcome their dislike to garden- 
ing operations, lor neither mowing-machine nor children at croquet appeared to 
disturb them in the least. The young ones were hatched and reared in due 
course. 
Ffynnon Bedr, Llanbedr, Angela Brazil. 
Vale of Conway. 
537 . A Garden Full of Birds.— I have made a list of all the birds 
observed in my garden in hopes of beating those described by Mr. Daubeny in 
the August Nature Notes. Some of his are more uncommon, but I have 
forty-five species. The garden is about 150 yards square, and a small tidal river 
runs through part of it. 
Pheasant 
Blue Tit 
Greenfinch 
Willow-Wren 
Partridge 
Cole Tit 
Bullfinch 
Moorhen 
Missel-Thrush 
Marsh-Tit 
Goldfinch 
Kingfisher 
Thrush 
Long-tailed Tit 
Hawfinch 
Green Woodpecker 
Blackbird 
Nuthatch 
Sparrow 
Lesser Spotted 
Starling 
Tree-Creeper 
Robin 
Woodpecker 
Swallow 
Spotted Flycatcher 
Wren 
Wryneck 
House-Martin 
Pied Wagtail 
Gold-Crest 
Rook 
Swift 
Grey Wagtail 
Hedge-Sparrow 
Jackdaw 
Wood-Pigeon 
Yellow-hammer 
Chiftchafi' 
Barn Owl 
Turtle-Dove 
Linnet 
Blackcap 
Brown Owl 
Great Tit 
Chaffinch 
One year there was a Red-backed Shrike’s nest, and this year I have seen 
a Fire-Crested Wren, but not exactly in the garden, just beyond are Skylarks, 
but no Pipits. 
Botky Hill, Botky, Hants, M. S. Jenkyns. 
August^, 1907. 
538 . A Garden Full of Birds. — It is ijuite refreshing to be able to 
“ go one better” than Mr. E. T. Daubeny. To his list of thirty-six birds I can 
add four — the marsh-til, the long-tailed tit, the wood-warbler, and whinchat, and 
if I may go 250 yards from the house I may add the nightingale, the sedge- 
warbler and the kestrel. Another 200 yards and I could include the hawfinch, 
the redstart, the moorhen and the green and lesser spotted woodpecker, but 1 
cannot include the three following species mentioned in Mr. Daubeny’s list — 
the nuthatch, which is a rare bird in these parts; the lesser redpole, which is 
only seen in the winter, although it breeds annually some two miles away; and 
the garden-warbler. '1 he space is somewhat the same but the garden proper 
less. 
Highfields, Keddikh, Donald Matthews. 
August 6, 1907. 
539 . Bird Protection v. Bird Destruction.— Your correspondent W. 
is, 1 think, on some points, needlessly alarmed ; and (if I may be pardoned for 
saying so) in some danger of spoiling his case by over-statement. I should be 
glad if you will allow me to quote on the other side from a published letter of 
Mr. O. V. Aplin, F.L.S., M.B.O.U. Mr. A( lin, at the outset, writes : " I have 
