Garden Warbler (Sylvia hortensis) - (5) - England, 1925

Blackberry brambles among hawthorn, blackthorn, elder etc. About 3.5ft from ground.

This bird does not seem ever to use hair for a nest lining, only finer grasses and fibres than those of the outer structure. Wild roses coming into bloom. Buff Ermine moth on ground among heather. Young hedge sparrows fledged near.

Lilley Hoo, Lilley, Hertfordshire, June 7th.

Song Thrush (Turdus musicus) - (3) - England, 1925

Elder hedge that divides gardens from The 'Pightle' near Sundon Post Office.

A Sundon man named Charles Marlow, "Mike", has found the nest of a common snipe at Sundon. He saw the bird and is positive of its identity, and I saw one of the eggs, which was broken, and was certain that it was the egg of a snipe. I had no idea of this bird nesting near here before. Dad said these thrush's eggs were those of the "Whistling Thrush". On this day also I found two nests of willow warbler with young on Markham Hills.

Sundon, Bedforshire, June 2nd.

Robin (Erithacus rubecola) - (2) - England, 1925

On ground among grass at root of small, solitary hawthorn. Well hidden nest, richly coloured eggs.

Lilley Hoo, Lilley, Hertfordshire, June 1st.

Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) - (2) - England, 1925

On ground under heather, which in turn was under ash saplings and hawthorn.

These eggs were addled eggs which I found in a nest which had hatched safely off, and which had contained about 10 eggs. Saw nightjar close by, but could not find its eggs.

Lilley Hoo, Lilley, Hertfordshire, June 1st.

Wren (Troglodytes parrulus) - (7) - England, 1925

Blackberry brambles and rank herbage. 2ft from ground.

It seems very rare for the wren to lay more than 6 eggs. The nest of the wren is always a marvellous work, and the way it is fitted into, and blends with its widely differing situation, places it in the fore-front of British bird architecture. I saw one today fitted into the fork of a wild clematis or Traveller's joy stem and two in brambles. Wild roses just beginning to open.

Lilley Hoo, Lilley, Hertfordshire, June 1st, Whit Monday.

Bullfinch (Pyrrhula europaea) - (1) - England, 1925

Pollard willow, bank of River Great Ouse, about 7ft from ground.

The nest was placed on a bunch of twigs which grew outwards from the trunk, near the top, and rested against the trunk. The bird was sitting when I found it, and it contained 1 fresh egg, 1 egg too much incubated to clean, and 1 young one, two or three days old. The tree was one of a wood of pollard willows, which stood ankle deep in a most luxuriant growth of stinging nettles, burdock, and other rank herbage.

River Great Ouse, between Great Barford and Willington, Bedfordshire, May 31st.