. British birds. Birds. OTES. HAWFINCH IN ANGLESEY. On June 23rd, 1917, wliilst watching a pair of Red-backed Shrikes feeding young in the nest at Wern, Red Wharf Bay, Anglesej^ I heard the unmistakable call-note of a Hawfinch {Coccothraustes c. coceothraustes) and saw one flying over in the direction of the shore, where I lost sight of it. This part of the island is fairly well wooded and no doubt the bird was breeding somewhere in the neighbourhood. There appears to be but one previous record of the Hawfinch for Anglesey —]VIr. H. E. Forrest informs me that one was shot at Trescawen, Tregaia
. British birds. Birds. OTES. HAWFINCH IN ANGLESEY. On June 23rd, 1917, wliilst watching a pair of Red-backed Shrikes feeding young in the nest at Wern, Red Wharf Bay, Anglesej^ I heard the unmistakable call-note of a Hawfinch {Coccothraustes c. coceothraustes) and saw one flying over in the direction of the shore, where I lost sight of it. This part of the island is fairly well wooded and no doubt the bird was breeding somewhere in the neighbourhood. There appears to be but one previous record of the Hawfinch for Anglesey —]VIr. H. E. Forrest informs me that one was shot at Trescawen, Tregaian, in June 1906. S. G. CUMMINGS. CURIOUS SITE FOR NEST OF CHAFFINCH. On May 14th, 1917, I was greatly surprised to find the nearly completed nest of a Chaffinch {Fringilla c. ccelebs) built into the end of a straw stack near Felsted, Essex. By May 19th three eggs had been laid, but later on the nest was destroyed. The choice of site is made more extraordinary by the fact that the stack was in a field, far from any buildings, and close to a tall fence full of the usual kind of places Chaffinches utilize. J. H. Owen. WHITE WAGTAIL NESTING IN WESTMORLAND. As I am not aware that the White Wagtail {Motacilla a. alba) has ever been recorded for Westmorland on migration, and certainly not as nesting in that country, it may be of interest to state that on June 23rd, 1917, I watched a pair feeding their young at a place between Grasmere and Thirlemere Lakes. I saw them again on Jmie 30th, when the young had evidently flown. Macpherson, in his Fauna of Lakeland, says : " Whether the White Wagtail visits Westmorland or Furness on the vernal migration I camiot ; It certainly visits Furness and other parts of north Lancashire on the spring migration,as I see it nearly every j^ear, but is far from plentiful. Mr. Thomas Jackson of Overton, in his long experience as an oologist, has yet to find the nest in Westmorland, Cumberland or Lancashire. H. W. Please note that
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