22 APRIL 1938, Page 16

A Naturalist's Easter

Since this Easter Sunday fell on April t7th, and the weather has at any rate done nothing to hinder the movement, holiday- makers should have much to record, and perhaps some of them will add evidence to the claims of this date. The one migrant (barring, of course, the chill-chaff) of which special note has already been taken in my neighbourhood is the redstart. The bird is charming to hear and see, and it can be inveigled into nesting in a garden box. It had grown curiously scarce, but has been reviving and I hope that the records of this April in the north of London indicate that the numbers will be at least normal. News of that real rarity the black redstart have been received from elsewhere.