9th, N.N.W., windy, cold, now and then fine snow, and clear.—Corv. cornix, little flights. Mot. lugubris, a couple. Two Woodcocks.
10th, N.W., fresh, loose scattered clouds, cold.—Nothing.
11th, N.N.W., fresh; P.M., N.E., clear, cold.—Merula and Sturnus, a few.
12th, W.N.W., slight wind, thick, almost fog.—Merula, Anth. pratensis and rupestris, a few.
13th, N.W., fresh, misty.—Almost not a bird. A few miserable Pewits.
14th, N.N.W. to N., fresh, cold.—Nothing. A few Mot. alba.
15th, N.N.W., windy, cold, overcast; in evening fog till 1.30 A.M.—T. merula, tolerable, ten caught in bush, 8 old [male], 2 [female]. Sturnus, flights. Mot. alba, singly. Vanellus, early, some flights. Four to five Woodcocks. Several Snipes and Plover.
16th, W., violent, cold, overcast; in evening clear.—Corv. cornix, six to ten. Sturnus, till nine in morning; flights of hundreds and thousands. Merula, a few hundred. Iliacus, fewer. Mot. alba, few. Anth. rupestris, some. Pratensis, none. Al. arvensis, many. Fr. cœlebs and cannabina, few. Char. vanellus and auratus passing on overhead. Woodcocks, three shot. Tr. alpina, early, great flights.
From two o'clock till daylight at Lighthouse.—Sturnus vulgaris, extraordinary many, 300 to 400 being caught. Merula, very many, Alauda, Char. vanellus and auratus, also very many. Also ducks.
17th, W., fresh, overcast, cold; P.M. wind heavy.—Nothing.