. Bird-life of the borders on moorland and sea, with faunal notes extending over forty years. 398 BIRD-LIFE OF THE BORDERS to our islands—that is to say, it is not, as a rule, found therein in winter. Yet this general rule does not apply to the north-east coast; for here the common godwit is one of our abundant winter wildfowl and is found, thousands strong, from August up to March, be that season mild or severe. It is, in fact, during the hardest weather and most protracted frosts of mid-winter that godwits are most Redshanks—On the Scap Point. These winter godwits were well known
. Bird-life of the borders on moorland and sea, with faunal notes extending over forty years. 398 BIRD-LIFE OF THE BORDERS to our islands—that is to say, it is not, as a rule, found therein in winter. Yet this general rule does not apply to the north-east coast; for here the common godwit is one of our abundant winter wildfowl and is found, thousands strong, from August up to March, be that season mild or severe. It is, in fact, during the hardest weather and most protracted frosts of mid-winter that godwits are most Redshanks—On the Scap Point. These winter godwits were well known both to Hancock and Adamson, as evidenced in their writings ; while in the Humber, they were recorded by the late John Cordeaux as occasionally abundant in January. In Scot- land they are described as widely distributed in winter (Gray, Birds of the West of Scotland) ; while in the Dornoch firth they occur in very large flocks at that season. Southward, in Essex, as many as fifty at one shot are reported to have been gathered {Field, February. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929. London, Gurney and Jackson
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