A Bit of Background

This is a collection of notes made by my grandfather, Frank Horsler, a devoted and meticulous naturalist. They accompany an extensive collection of bird eggs that he made during the earlier part of the 20th Century when this was an accepted form of natural history study. Although, nowadays, the practice of egg collecting seems somewhat barbaric, my grandfather's collection and the notes he made provide a rich record of the wildlife and countryside as it was in a bygone age. In reproducing his writing in the form of a blog (something that would have been beyond conception at the time of his death in the early 1970s, let alone at the time his observations were recorded), I hope to make it more accessible to all his family and also to anyone else who happens upon it and shares an interest in the natural world.