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stonechats and barn owl. Hundreds
of reed buntings and -fifty pied
wagtails resting in reeds at basin
pond. (This pond was situated by
Luxborough Lane.)
26.11.1933 Water Rail at Sewage Farm.
1.1.1934 Bought curlew (6d.) and redshank
(2d.) at Leadenhall Market. (This
London market specialised in the
sale of game. Later Mr. McKenzie
Smith also noted water rail, heron,
moorhen and dunlin for sale here!
Although not local, I included this
entry for its interest.)
15.4.1934 Cuckoo and four Wheatears at
Chigwell Sewage Farm.
25.6.1934 Pair of green sandpipers at Chigwell
Sewage Farm, four families of
whinchats and a pair of turtle
doves.
26.12.1934 Hooded crow on Watts plough land.
19.1.1935 Flock of 2-3000 lapwings and
thirty-nine golden plover at
Thornwood.
20.1.1935 Hooded crow still on Roding Meadows.
20.4.1935 Black tern hawking over Navestock
Lake ... Heard first nightingale in
Ongar Park Woods.
11.5.1935
Heard landrail at Chigwell on Sewage