Identifier: bulletinofbritis22brit (find matches)
Title: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: British Ornithologists' Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals
Publisher: (England) : The Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rth-western and westerncounties. Between April the 22nd and the 25th birds were recordedin some numbers from the southern counties as well as fromthe north and west. Thus, on April the 22nd records weresent from Kent, Bedford and Cambridge ; and on April the23rd from Cornwall, Devon, Glamorgan and Herts ; while onApril the 24th some were heard passing the Eddystone light-house in the early morning. The birds from the south-western and western countiesincreased rapidly in numbers during the following days, butvery few were recorded from the south-eastern and easterncounties until the end of April and the beginning ofMay. The earliest nests were found in Staffordshire and Lan^cashire on May the 3rd. Large numbers were observed in the Isle of Man on Maythe 5th, but these decreased during the following davs. Birds of this species were heard passing the Eddysionelight on May the 15ch and again on the 23rd. In studying the distribution of this species in England and SI 170 COMMON SANDPIPER.
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171 Wales during the migration, we must take into considerationthe following points :— 1. That the species was first recorded during the third ■week in March from counties where it is known tobreed, but there is no record to show from whencethese earliest arrivals came. 2. That after our own residents had settled down and begun to breed, birds continued to pass acrossEngland on their way to more northern localities.Thus, though nests were found in Staffordshire andLancashire on May the 3rd, two days later largenumbers were seen in the Isle of Man, but these haddecreased by May the 7th and 8th. Others wereheard passing the Eddystone light on May the15th, but by the 19th nearly all had left SouthDevon. It should also be remembered that a certain number ofindividuals of this species winter in Cornwall and Devon, andpossibly these were the birds recorded early in the seasonfrom the more northern counties, to which they repair beforethe main flocks of immigrants reach our shores. Chron

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