. British birds. Birds. nOTES GREY WAGTAILS NESTING AT A DISTANCE FROM WATER. A PAIR of Grey Wagtails {Motacilla c. cinerea) brought off a brood this year from a nest in a hole under a window-sill in Sizergh Castle, Westmorland. The Castle is a mile from the River Kent. E. U. Savage. [See British Birds, V., pp. 133 and 165, for other instances of breeding at a distance from water.—] WINTER IMMIGRATION OF GOLDCRESTS AND FIRECRESTS IN KENT. Since the frost of 1917 Goldcrests {Regulus r. anglorum) have been extremely scarce near Cranbrook, as in many other parts of the country, and in the
. British birds. Birds. nOTES GREY WAGTAILS NESTING AT A DISTANCE FROM WATER. A PAIR of Grey Wagtails {Motacilla c. cinerea) brought off a brood this year from a nest in a hole under a window-sill in Sizergh Castle, Westmorland. The Castle is a mile from the River Kent. E. U. Savage. [See British Birds, V., pp. 133 and 165, for other instances of breeding at a distance from water.—] WINTER IMMIGRATION OF GOLDCRESTS AND FIRECRESTS IN KENT. Since the frost of 1917 Goldcrests {Regulus r. anglorum) have been extremely scarce near Cranbrook, as in many other parts of the country, and in the breeding season of 1918 I only knew of two or three pairs, all in extensive pine woods a few miles away. On Oct. 22nd, 1918, I first noticed two birds near Cranbrook, and a few days later Goldcrests had become quite abundant in all pine regions ; I also saw a few apparently on the move westwards in hedges, and on the 30th two in the flat country near the Rother. I did not observe any further movement of Goldcrests after the end of the month, but on Nov. i6th I saw a female Firecrest {Regulus i. ignicapillus). The following day I saw a male in another place. The former bird I did not see again, but the latter remained till Dec. 3rd., after which it disappeared. In the spring I kept a close look-out for it again, and sure enough it reappeared on March 6th and stayed till the 31st, frequently singing. During the winter two Goldcrests had haunted the same place, but these disappeared after March i6th, and the number in Angley Park, where in early March there had been a party of nearly twenty, gradually diminished, till at the end of the month only one or two were left, though on April 3rd I saw a part}^ of about eight at another part. In one or two other places in the neighbourhood I heard Goldcrests singing vigorously in early April, as if they had established themselves again for breeding purposes. H. G. Alexander. GREAT TIT LAYING IN AN OPEN NEST. On May 23rd a Haileybury boy
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