. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . -gled into the country, a single bird reaching Westmorelandas early as the 8th. The first considerable wave of immi-gration took place on the nights of the 22nd and 23rd ofApril, when many were seen at Hanois light (Guernsey)and numbers at St. (/atherines light (Hants). A secondoccurred on the nights of the 28th and 29th. when greatnumbers were seen and many killed at the last-named effect of these influxes was to distribute the birdsgenerally over the whole of the country, and although in-creases were noted in various counties up to t
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . -gled into the country, a single bird reaching Westmorelandas early as the 8th. The first considerable wave of immi-gration took place on the nights of the 22nd and 23rd ofApril, when many were seen at Hanois light (Guernsey)and numbers at St. (/atherines light (Hants). A secondoccurred on the nights of the 28th and 29th. when greatnumbers were seen and many killed at the last-named effect of these influxes was to distribute the birdsgenerally over the whole of the country, and although in-creases were noted in various counties up to the middle ofMay, the only immigratory movements recorded after theend of April were small ones during the first week of May. Redstarts were nesting in Staffordshire and Cumberlandon the 4th of May, in Hertfordshire on the 12th and inLancashire on the 13th, on which date a nest with threeeggs was found in Radnor. Chronological Summary of the Records. April 4th. Berks. „ 8th. Westmoreland. „ 9th. Devon. „ 10th. Sussex, Norfolk. 50 51 Mf Dril 1 11th. Kent. 5? lith. Somerset. ?5 15th. Middlesex. ?! 17th. Cheshire. 5 18th. Surrey. J 19th. Staffordshire, Leicester, Yorkshire. J5 20th. Essex, Bedford. 5? 21st. Wilts, Oxford, Cambridge. }} 22nd. Cambridge (increase). Herts, Worcester,Suffolk, Shropshire. 5? 22nd/23rd. Guernsey and Hants lights. ?? 23rd. Worcester (increase). Northampton (num-bers) . Cumberland. ?5 23rd/24th. Hants light. ?5 24th. Gloucester, Monmouth, Brecon, Lanca-shire. ?? 25th. Shropshire (increase). Warwick, Here-ford. ?? 26th. Yorkshire (slight increase). i> 27th. Essex and Gloucester (increase). Bedford,Cambridge and Staffordshire (slightincrease). Hants, Montgomery. ?» 28th. Essex (decrease). Derby, Durham. !J 28th/29th. Hants light. 5! 29th. Eadnor, Isle of Man. ?? 29th/30th. Hants light. JJ 30th. Herts and Hereford (slight increase).Carmarthen. ^y 1st. Somerset, Shropshire and Cumberland(increase). Denbigh. 55 lst/2nd. Hants light. 5! 2nd.
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