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150 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY<br />
WILLOW WREN. In favourite sites it is fairly common. In the fall<br />
I often see it about the gardens in town.<br />
WOOD WREN. Not by any means a common species, but will be met<br />
now and again in suitable localities.<br />
SEDGE WARBLER. Our Scottish Nightingale. Breeds in bushy banks.<br />
Near my house I used to visit a favourite brook side to listen<br />
to it. If the singer was silent I would drop a stone into the<br />
bush, and no sooner did so than the sweet notes would break<br />
forth on the evening stillness.<br />
GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. Although I have not had the fortune to<br />
find a nest of this bird, still I am convinced I heard its notes<br />
one evening. The bird itself was hidden by the foliage, but<br />
seemed to me to be from the bird named.<br />
the trilling<br />
HEDGE SPARROW. The " Blue Jannet<br />
" of the schoolboy. Very<br />
common about all hedges and ditches.<br />
LONG-TAILED TIT. Nests in several woods along the Howe of the<br />
Mearns.<br />
GREAT TIT. Plentiful. Often seen about the trees bordering the<br />
turnpikes, where it<br />
evidently finds a change of food.<br />
COAL TIT. Nests in several localities.<br />
BLUE TIT. Very common about gardens in rural parts. Breeds<br />
regularly over the whole county.<br />
TREE CREEPER. Not by any way familiar. It only breeds in<br />
special districts, and that sparingly.<br />
WREN. This bird can be seen in every locality. A ditch side<br />
seems to be the most favourite site for its nest.<br />
PIED WAGTAIL.<br />
GRAY WAGTAIL.<br />
YELLOW WAGTAIL.<br />
distributed from sea-shore to hillside.<br />
Widely<br />
To be seen about the streams occasionally.<br />
Not uncommon, and breeds annually here and<br />
there.<br />
MEADOW PIPIT. Fairly distributed, but not common by any means.<br />
It appears to be more abundant towards the sea border than<br />
inland.<br />
TREE PIPIT. I give this<br />
the authority of M.<br />
as breeding in the parish of Fordoun, on<br />
ROCK PIPIT. Along the whole sea margin this species is fairly<br />
plentiful.<br />
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. A summer migrant to the county. It is<br />
more common, I think, than some suppose.<br />
SWALLOW. Comes in April and leaves in September. Very abundant.<br />
Have known stray birds to linger on to October and<br />
November.
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