Abstract
YESTERDAY and to-day (17th and 18th inst) continuous flights of migrant birds, chiefly fieldfares and redwings, have passed over this place in one uniform direction, from east to west, turning inland to the north-west, as though unwilling to cross Poole Harbour. The procession, so far as it attracted my own notice, began with daybreak of the 17th, and was so rapid and continuous all that day that enormous numbers altogether must have passed over us. Close flocks would come, and then a continuous flight of stragglers, but all in one and the same direction, and with little deviation from a well-defined aërial pathway, as though keeping some visible high-road, Yesterday the flight was down the wind; this morning against it; and although the flight was low and the birds seemed tired, none alighted in this neighbourhood. Whence did they come, and whither are they bound—east or west of this place? Can any of your readers say?
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