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(20) Watson's Microscope Record.
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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
The Essex Bird Watching and Preservation Society
This Society was formed in July, 1949, and already has a fairly con-
siderable membership. It has as its main objects the furtherance of the
knowledge of wild birds, with particular reference to Essex ; the faithful
recording of all interesting observations affecting birds in Essex, to be in-
corporated in an Annual Report ; the taking of measures, in collaboration
with other bodies, to prevent the wanton destruction of birds ; and, in time to
come, the establishment of sanctuaries.
Mr. W. E. Glegg, Hon. Assoc. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.,
has accepted the Presidency and the following Officers have been appointed :
Chairman, Mr. A. E. Holman ; Vice-Chairman, Mr. W. A. L. Friedlein ;
Hon. Treasurer, Mr. L. C. Adkins.
Further particulars may be obtained from the Hon. Secretary, Mr.
G. A. Pyman, M.B.O.U., 32, Hayes Close, Chelmsford.
BIRDS
Some Rough Notes on the Altered Status of Birds in North Fambridge, Essex
From September 1935, when I came to live in North Fambridge, until
September 1939, when I left on War Service, I kept notes of birds and mam-
mals of interest seen, rarities, if any, dates of migrants' arrivals and de-
partures, first and last song dates and so forth.
I did not return home until the summer of 1945. During my absence,
rough plot land covered with rosebushes, hawthorn and scrub had been
ploughed up, as was pasture land. Certain marshes which used to contain
reedy fleets were drained, so that the fleets are now merely muddy patches
or are gone altogether.
The drought of 1947 up till now, has also probably made a difference to
the bird population.
North Fambridge is a hamlet of about 250 people on the north bank of
the Crouch estuary, nine miles up river from Burnham-on-Crouch, and
thirty-seven miles (by rail) from London.