Country Rambles, and Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers / Being Rural Wanderings in Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire

by Leo H. Grindon

The Common Partridge (Perdrix cinerea), iii., 174.

Upon farm–land, common.

The Wild Duck (Anas Boschas), v., 270.

This bird breeds on Carrington Moss, Chat Moss, and in many other places.

The Common Heron (Ardea cinerea), iv., 197.

In the Manchester Guardian of December 28, 1881, it is stated that there is a heronry “within about fourteen miles of the Exchange,” and that within forty miles of Manchester there are a dozen other stations for this beautiful and celebrated bird. The former is probably that one which it is further stated has existed since 1871 in Tabley Park, though the older stations, Dunham Park, Oulton Park, and the trees near the water at Arley Hall, have long since been deserted.—(Vide also the Guardian of March 18th, 1882.)

II. PERIODICAL VISITORS.

I. COMING IN SPRING AND SUMMER.

The Wheat–ear (Sylvia Œnanthe), iii., 142.