Identifier: birdnotesns04fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ek of severe weatherfollowed by a mild one was good for the catcher, but, badfur the bird-y; there will, however, be some real movementsduring March and April, and I sincerely hope many of ourmembers will keep a look-out and report their observations. K.S. 2 7/2/13.February.—Besi:le3 many Curlew, Dunlin, and Wigeon,I have ide.iliiled a couple of White Stork on the mud-flats.The Percaers are mostly in hiding from our miserable weather.Single specimens of the Chiffchaft, Corn Bunting and Bull-fincli, have been seen, and i)airs as follows : Song Thrush 10th ;Blackbird 13tli; Blackcap 4th; Blue Tit 3rd; Wren 10th;Linne! 13th; .Jay 28th; Magpie Uth. Small parties of MarshTits 2nd; and of Goldfinches 27th. Skylarks and HedgeAccentors were in full .^ong on 10th; Thrushes and Blackbirdswarbling on 12th. Rooks and Thrushes are now building.The Black-headed Gull lias begun to change his plumage.The migrants so far are represented Ly a solitary LesserWhitethroat, D.L. (Salcombe;. 28;2/13. <
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Boole Notices and Revicivs. 91 February.- In llic lirst week of this month the cockChadinches were in lull xtng, as also the Song Thrushes. Onthe 7th a pair of Starlings wcic Imsy getting ready a favouiitenesting hole high up an old elm. They seemed to l)e throwingout hits of the old nest. By the end of the month each nest-ing h()\ in the garden was in possession of a pair of Starl-ings. Several Hocks of I^rent Geese have been seen feedingon the shore here all this month, some of the flocks consistingof al)0ut one hundred birds. A Shelduck, mirked with a jingas a ■■ llappcr m the summer oi 1912 was shot at Saltash inCornwall on tlu- lOtli of February thi-; year. On the samecfay af G a.m. a Song Thrush was found dying at the St.CallHi-iius Li(,dith()use, which was jninni to be. fnnii ilic num-bered ring on one leg, one marked near here on the 25th ofApril, 1912, as a nestling. The lighthouse keeper reportedthat an immigration from the south, of Thrushes, had beengoing on for three

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