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with Chigwell: it was, before it
was largely destroyed, a fine
ancient green lane.)
21.5.1933 Red-backed shrike at Chigwell Sewage
Farm.
28.5.1933 Found redshanks at Abridge; at
least two pairs of adults
...whinchats on the river fields at
Chigwell Lane.
13.6.1933 At least three families of whinchats
at Chigwell Sewage Farm, in all
15-16 birds.
17.6.1933 Red-backed shrike and lesser
Whitethroat at Fairmead.
23.7.1933 With Ward to Wake Valley Pond, saw
sundews, bladderwort and sweet
rush; also fine views of adult and
young redstarts. (Bernard Ward, a
friend of Mr. McKenzie Smith was
later a verderer of Epping Forest,
with a good all round knowledge of
its natural history.)
17.9.1933 Saw Wheatear at High Beach.
23.9.1933 Saw man fishing water—lilies out of
the Roding for sale to gardeners.
14.10.1933 Pair of stonechats at Sewage Farm.
18.11.1933 Two green sandpipers on the Roding,
jack snipe and common snipe at
Sewage Farm; also two cock