12 APRIL 1924, Page 14

LATE MIGRATION OF REDWINGS.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—The letter which you were good enough to publish on March 29th on the appearance of redwings in London on March 17th has brought use an interesting letter from Jersey, in which the writer records observing a flock of redwings on migra- tion in that island " on Sunday afternoon, the 15th inst." The date is a slip on the part of the writer, as Sunday was the 16th, the day before I saw a flock in London. These dates seem to me very late for the northward migration of red- wings. I wonder if any of your ornithological readers could throw light on the usual date of migration. Certainly I have never before seen them so late in London.—I am, Sir, &c., W. M. Caoox. Devonshire Club, St. James's, S.W. 1.