. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . nt for the table as during thewinter months. In our Northamptonshire meadowsI have generally found the Golden Plover very waryexcept in foggy weather, but in the case of small trips have generally contrived to get a shot by alittle scheming, unless these Plovers were in thecompany of Peewits. The birds of this species that\dsit us in early autumn seldom remain for any great AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, 19 length of time in our neighbourhood, but severefrosts generally send Golden Plovers in greater or lessnumbers up our valley in December and
. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . nt for the table as during thewinter months. In our Northamptonshire meadowsI have generally found the Golden Plover very waryexcept in foggy weather, but in the case of small trips have generally contrived to get a shot by alittle scheming, unless these Plovers were in thecompany of Peewits. The birds of this species that\dsit us in early autumn seldom remain for any great AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, 19 length of time in our neighbourhood, but severefrosts generally send Golden Plovers in greater or lessnumbers up our valley in December and January; manymore, however, are to be seen and heard passing overhigh in air than ever alight within our limits; thesehigh-flying flocks have now and then a curious habitof plunging downwards on being fired at, and I haveoccasionally got in a second barrel with effect bythis method of attack. A solitary Golden Plovermay often be brought up within shot-range by atolerable imitation of the plaintive whistle whichis the most common note of these birds. A vast. G-olden. Flovers on tine mud. number of these Plovers are often to be met withduring the late autumn and winter on the tidalmud-flats of our harbours and estuaries at low water,they generally keep to the most open meadow andarable land at other times of the day, they seem tofeed principally by night, and are very restless infoggy or wet weather. A great many Golden Ploverswere formerly taken in Whittlesea Wash and theadjacent fen-lands by means of clap-nets, but I aminformed that of late years the Plovers have becomeso comparatively scarce in that neighbourhood that c2 20 THE BIRDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE the netting system has been virtually abandonedthere, though it still flourishes in many parts ofIreland, where this bird is generally known as the Grey Plover—not the only instance of a misappli-cation of names in that misguided country; for fulldetails of the w^ay in which this netting is carried onthere, I would refer my r
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