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Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e present Heronries are at :— Hornsea. On Mr. Strickland Constables property,established about 1880, and now comprising about eighteennests in the wood at the Wassand end of the Mere. Scampston, Mr, W. H. St. Quintins. About eight nests;sometimes a few more, built in larches. Moreby Park, near York, Major Prestons. There werefifty nests in 1884 (J. Backhouse MS.), ten to twelve in 1892,and now about eight or nine. Isolated nests are found near Winestead, at Everingham,Beswick Rush, and in the Heron Wood at Escrick. Turning now to the North Riding, breeding places existedat:— Riccaldale (C. Ward, Helmsley, MS.). Harmby, near Middleham. From the Heronry formerlyexisting there the place probably derived its Saxon name,Hernebie (Barkers Three Days of Wensleydale, 1854). Kildale ( Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire ). Concerningthe colony here Mr. E. West writes (22nd March 1902), thathe once knew of a nest at Crag Bank, adjoining the lake,in 1850, but never a Heronry. Mr. Thomas Stephenson
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COMMON HERON. 389 informs me that, in 1882, he received information that severalpairs remained all the summer at Randy Mere, Goathland,and in July of that year he saw four birds ; but a few yearsafterwards the trees were cut down, and he concluded thebirds left. Sedbergh. A few pairs used to nest at Ingmire Hall,Mrs. Dormers, up to 1880 (W. Morris MS.). Swinton Park, Masham, Lord Mashams. Mr. Forbes,forester, informed me that three pairs nested in larch treesin the Druids Wood in igoo and 1901, but, for some unex-plained cause, they deserted in 1902. According to the information supplied by my correspon-dents there is not at present any Heronry of importance inthe North Riding ; a small colony consisting of three pairs isestablished on the late Mr. Rutsons estate at Newby Wiske,and odd pairs nest sparingly in one or two other localities. In1900 and the two succeeding years a pair bred in the Rookery inWensleydale, between Carperby and Thornton Rust, but weredisturbed by the Rook-shoot

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