Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals
"A good practical naturalist must be a good observer; and how many qualities are required to make up a good observer! Attention, patience, quickness to seize separate facts, discrimination to keep them unconfused, readiness to combine them, and rapidity and yet slowness of ind...
_Smalls Rock_ L.H.--A great number of Blackbirds, Thrushes, Fieldfares, Goldcrests, Larks, Starlings, and "Furse Cap," during the night. Eighty-eight struck the lantern, and for...
4. Part 4Fringillidæ.--As in 1883, both in spring and autumn, Finches show themselves well to the front in migration; but while in some years Thrushes and Finches travel much together; i...
9. Part 9I have to thank Mr. McCulloch, Kyleakin, for the careful attention he has given to the subject of direction of flight in every instance of a record, and, I may add, I am pleased...
3. Part 3While rushes took place in spring at Bell Rock in March, with the wind prevailing E., at Isle of May much smaller movements are recorded, local winds apparently being more S. &...
10. Part 10Corvidæ, Crows.--Spring: movement of Carrion Crows, Ravens and Rooks few, and only in February and March. In February, "Black Crows" at Barra Head, one on 23rd, and fifteen on 1...
16. Part 16_Eagle Island, East._--Sept. 12th, about twenty Grey Linnets going W., wind S.W., light, rested some time on island; 17th, about one hundred going S. at 8 a.m., wind S.W., light...
6. Part 6_Regulus cristatus_, Goldcrest.--Spring: One recorded from Spurn, Coquet, and Farn Islands, last fortnight in March, and at the Longstone L.H., one on April 28th. Autumn: First...
15. Part 15_Tearaght._--Oct. 3rd, two (Pipits?) "Several on island all the winter. It goes alone, and pops about under rocks and stones, and has a single little cheep." [The skin was forwa...
11. Part 11Now, the temperature of water having been lowered by the accumulation of ice along the W. coast of Spitzbergen, which is comparatively approximate to the furthest N.E. influence...
14. Part 14The foregoing table does not show the relative _numbers_ of birds striking; it only exhibits the _number of stations_ at which each species is reported to have struck. For examp...
17. Part 17_Old Head, Kinsale._--April 25th, 11 p.m., Whimbrel all around light; wind E., strong, rain and fog. I never saw such a rush of these birds before. Dec. 20th, sixty to hundred a...
5. Part 5Scolopacidæ.--Scarcer in spring than in 1883, and no rush appreciable; no records in April, and only stray entries on 16th, 25th, and 30th May. In July various slight records; a...
7. Part 7_Cuculus canorus_, Cuckoo.--Spring: Great Cotes, April 27th, first recorded. Hunstanton L.H., May 6th. Spurn L.H., 7th; and Whitby L.H., 8th, wind W.S.W., a progression northwar...
2. Part 2+-------------------------------+---------------+--------------------- | | | | Number, Name, or | | Force and Direction Date. | Species of Bird. |Time when seen.| of Wind. -----...
8. Part 8Alcidæ, Auks.--Longstone L.H., Feb. 20th. Guillemot (_Lomvia troile_), flying about breeding-places, but not settling; on March 22nd they settled for the first time; but on the...
13. Part 13Anatidæ.--Teal. A pair noted at St. Bees on Aug. 24th. The references to Ducks, at both the Selker and Dee light-vessels, are very numerous; at the latter "Black Duck" (? Scoter...
1. Part 1"A good practical naturalist must be a good observer; and how many qualities are required to make up a good observer! Attention, patience, quickness to seize separate facts, dis...
18. Part 18_Blackrock, Mayo._--Feb. 8th, nine going W.; wind S.E., strong. March 16th, thirteen going S.W. July 20th, thirty or forty. Dec. 5th, three; 25th to Jan. 13th, 1885, one to five.