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Flock of Fieldfares, number of Redwings increased, and one
Reed Bunting near the Warren. One Tree Creeper, Straw-
berry Hill, and another near Earl's Path. Nuthatch heard
in Hill Wood. One Golden-crested Wren, Long Hills.
December 10th.—Two Reed Buntings, Chingford Plain. One Coot
and four Tufted Ducks, Connaught Water. One Hawfinch,
two Lesser Redpolls and three Reed Buntings, near the
Warren.
December 17th.—Fairmead Bottom, a few Redwings and Mistle-
Thrush common, at the berries. Several Reed Buntings
about.
December 23rd.—Eight Pochards on lake, Higham Park.
December 24th.—Reed Bunting with much black left on head, by
Rangers Road. A small flock of Yellow Buntings in winter
plumage on Warren Hill.
December 25th.—Flock of Coal Titmice and one Tree-Creeper, Lough-
ton Camp. Another flock of Coal Titmice and one Tree-
Creeper, Great Monk Wood. Flock (about a hundred) of
Lesser Redpolls on birches, and one Tree-Creeper, Jack's
Hill.
December 26th.—One male and two female Bullfinches with a few
Lesser Redpolls feeding on top of birch about thirty feet
high, St. Thomas's Quarters.
December 31st.—Weather mild. Two Tufted Ducks and one Coot on
Connaught Water. One Bullfinch and small party of Green-
finches, Buttonseed Corner. A few Mistle-Thrushes, two
Reed Buntings and one Hawfinch, near the Warren, but no
Redwings were identified, the diminution of the food supply
probably accounted for this. One male Bullfinch, Fairmead
Bottom. One Tree-Creeper, Black Bushes. Flock of about
twenty Greenfinches, Debden Slade. Only a few Lesser
Redpolls at High Beach, on. the higher branches of the
birches. Hawk, species unknown, Buttonseed Corner.
Green Woodpecker yaffling, Chingford Plain. Many Titmice,
five species, were seen, including two flocks of Longtailed
Titmice, passing from tree to tree in characteristic manner.
Flock of eight Greenfinches, Honey Lane. Several Jackdaws
by Paul's Nursery, Loughton. Seven Jays were identified
by one observer and nine by another, on different routes.
Wanstead Park Heronry.—It is reported there were seventy-two nests
this year. For the previous two or three years the numbe
was seventy, whereas it used to be about fifty.
1916