282 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Essex, Mr. W. E. Glegg states "the Cormorant is of almost annual
"occurrence at the Lea Valley Reservoirs, although these visits do not
"include more than one or two birds, which, at times, make a stay of
"some months. It has been seen here as early as 6th August, and as
"late as April."
Mr. W. A. Wright, who also saw these birds, has furnished me with
the following abstract from his notes on this species at the King George
Reservoir: October 15th, 1932, two; January 23rd, 1937, one; February
6th, 1937, one; February 13th, 1937, one; December 18th, 1937, one;
January 1st, 1938, one; October 15th, 1938, three. From my own notes
I have a record of seeing a flight of five over Whitehall Plain, Chingford,
on April 10th, 1938. It would seem that so large a number is an unusual
occurrence in the Lea Valley.
B. T. Ward.
Common Buzzards at Chingford.—On September 23rd, 1939, I
observed two Common Buzzards, Buteo b. buteo (L.), soaring over Hawk
Wood, Chingford. For four or five years past I have notes of this species
appearing occasionally at Chingford and with one exception they all relate
to birds seen in the same limited area, i.e., along the steep escarpment
on the west of the Epping Forest Ridge, where presumably the birds
find currents of uprising air upon which they can soar.
B. T. Ward.
(End of Vol. XXVI.)