During the day all those of yesterday, but only very singly.
22d, S.W., light, slightly cloudy, the first warm day.—Again little migration; everything there, but singly. No Bluethroats; no Sylviæ, curruca, phœnicurus. One Mot. flava and one Raii, Anth. arborea, Hir. rustica, of each a small party of about fifteen to twenty. Al. alpestris still up to 100 during the day.
23d, S.W., light, overcast; in night, very fine rain.—F. æsalon and tinnunculus, females, some. C. cornix, a small flight. Sturnus, still only few. Sy. luscinia, one; trochilus, some; phœnicurus, ditto. Mot. flava, few. Raii, one. Anth. arborea, some. Sax. ænanthe, stray birds; rubetra, one; altogether very little. A few small Totanus.
24th, W., S., E.S.E., quite light, warm, slightly cloudy.—Early not a bird; later in day the above, but very singly. Sixty to eighty pilaris.
25th, early, S.S.E.; A.M., S.S.W., fresh, overcast; P.M. and evening, quite light, S.E., warm.—Emb. hortulana, Jynx torquilla, and Up. epops, the first ones. F. æsalon, tinnunculus, and nisus, few females. T. musicus, torquatus, and pilaris, not many. Anth. arborea, some; pratensis, more, but not many. Sax. rubetra, pretty many. Sy. rubecula and trochilus, pretty many; no suecica nor curruca. Mot. flava, tolerable. Al. alpestris, few, small flights. F. cœlebs, montifringilla, and cannabina, scattered. Tot. ochropus, some, Num. arquata, still a few flights. Ard. cinerea, a couple.
26th, S.S.W., slight, thick, overcast, but will not rain; in evening, E.S.E.—Mus. luctuosa, a fine old male in garden. Sy. cinerea, curruca, phragmitis, and locustella, the first ones.
F. æsalon, tinnunculus, and nisus, females, scattered. T. musicus and torquatus, pretty many. Sy. rubecula and trochilus, tolerable; phœnicurus, less; no suecica. Anth. arborea, Sax. ænanthe and rubetra., not many. Mot. flava, tolerable; alba, still some. Al. arvensis, a small flight; alpestris, few. Fringillæ, scattered. Up. epops, I. torquilla, some. Crex pratensis, several. Scol. gallinula, some. Char. auratus, fine old birds. Morinellus, some.
27th, S.E., fresh, thick, overcast, clouds moving from S.S.W.; all evening, E. and E. by N.; fog and rain all night.—Early, at 5 o'clock, many T. musicus; at 8 o'clock everything gone. Hir. urbica, riparia, cypselus, some of each, the first ones. Trochilus, rubecula, cinerea, flava, rubetra—M. luctuosa, Fringilla, all very single in course of day; no suecica.
28th, N.N.W., slight, fog, above sunny.—Nothing. Caprimulgus, one, the first. Hortulana, some.
29th, E., slight, early at 5 o'clock fog, later clear.—Almost nothing. Seasonable birds scattered.