green sandpiper in king's county
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Green Sandpiper in King's CountyAuthor(s): Helen M. Rait KerrSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan., 1918), p. 14Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25524704 .
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14 The Irish Naturalist. January,
Sunfish at Larne Harbour.
It may interest readers of the Irish Naturalist to know of the capture of a Sunfish, Orihagoriscus mola Sehn, off Larne Harbour on September
17th. It weighs just over two cwts. and was exhibited in the shop of
Messrs. Rangecroft, Ltd., Corn Market.
Belfast. J. A. Sidney Stendall.
Stray Bird Notes, Autumn, 1917.
My experiences coincide very much with those of Mr. C. B. Moffat
and Mr. Burkitt. First as to the arrival of the migrants. My earliest
date is Swallow, April 23, followed by Chiff-chaff, April 25, and Willow
Warbler, April 26, Sand Martin, April 30. These were the only migrants noted in April, but the Cuckoo and Corncrake were both observed on
May i. The Wheatear, which generaly arrives here about the end of
March, I could not find at its usual haunt, and only observed one on
September 27 ! The Spotted Flycatcher was only seen by me on June 11, whilst our rarer visitors, the Grasshopper Warbler, the Quail and the
Turtle Dove were not observed at all. I spent July and August in
England; and in the first week of July at Stoke Ash near Ipswich, in the
small lawn at the Parsonage I observed the Blackcap, the Garden Warbler,
Chiff-chaff, Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, the Tree Pipit and the Turtle
Dove, but not until August 11 did I, for the first time in the year, note
the Gold-crest.
Some of the folk names of the birds in England are very curious, such
as the "
Groundoven "
for the Willow Warbler, and the "
Hay jack '*
for the Linnet. The "
Thricecock "
Mr. Warde Parke thinks may mean
the "
Mistle Thrush," but I have never y,et met anyone who could explain the meaning of the
" Swiney," by which porcine appellation the Meadow
Pipit is always known in Balbriggan.
Charles W. Benson.
Balbriggan, October 10.
Green Sandpiper in King's County.
It may be of interest to you to know that I identified a Green Sandpiper, Totanus ochropus, adult, sex unknown, seen on the wing on Ballyheishall
bog, near Edenderry, King's County, on November 15th, 1917. I hope to meet with it again later in the year. I have not hitherto seen any of these birds in this locality.
Helen M. Rait K?r?^.
Fiathmoyle, Edenderry.
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