. The vertebrate fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay. ead statesthat at the time of its demohtion there were about twentynests in the colony. A few Herons used to nest some yearsago in the Marsh Plantation at Ince, but they have not bredthere lately. An island in the pool at Oulton Park wastenanted by a number of Herons until about the year 1850,when the birds deserted the Odd pairs occasionally nest in secluded woods. Byerleymentions that a pair nested at Newton-cum-Larton. In1888 a brood was reared in a wood at Balderton nearChester, and at one time a pair used to nest in the beec
. The vertebrate fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay. ead statesthat at the time of its demohtion there were about twentynests in the colony. A few Herons used to nest some yearsago in the Marsh Plantation at Ince, but they have not bredthere lately. An island in the pool at Oulton Park wastenanted by a number of Herons until about the year 1850,when the birds deserted the Odd pairs occasionally nest in secluded woods. Byerleymentions that a pair nested at Newton-cum-Larton. In1888 a brood was reared in a wood at Balderton nearChester, and at one time a pair used to nest in the beechwood in Alderley Park ; isolated pairs have nested on theTatton Estate, at Adlington, in Lyme Park, and, so lately as1902, at Redes Mere. Mr. S. E. Thomason teUs us that oneor two pairs nest annually in the woods at Taxal; in the * J. E. Smith, Manchester City News, May 16, 1874. f F. Nicholson, Manchester City News, Nov. 14th, 1874. ManchesterGuardian, Dec. 28th, 1881. R. Newstead, Chester Society of Nat. Scienceand Lit., Proc. IV., pp. 226-243. J. BIRDS 305 springs of 1907 and 1908 he saw nests, but no large colonyhas been formed. The ordinary call of the Heron—jrank—is not, as is oftenstated, an alarm cry only, but frequently serves as a call addition to this cry, we heard at the Eaton heronry atthe end of March, when the birds had well-grown young inthe nests, a deep growling gwrronk, which was apparentlya note of welcome, for it was loudest and most emphaticwhen one bird aHghted on the edge of a nest in which itsmate was sitting. The younger birds in the nest utter athin piping note, and when older a curious chittering cry,which reminds one of the alarm tac, tac of the Blackbird. The diet of the Heron is by no means confined to fish,though Bream are largely eaten on the meres. PeUets ofthe bird picked up at Eaton and Tabley consist of a densefelted mass of the fur of the Water Vole, and occasionallycontain many broken fragments of bone of this animaland skulls
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