COUNTRY LIFE
WHEN frost is heavy on the land it usually happens that "the ringing stations," centres where birds are officially ringed and recorded, receive an access of communications; for dead birds are seldom found unless they have been killed by some suddew agency. Otherwise how very rarely we come upon the little bodies! Invmy experience the birds most frequently and suddenly struck down by frost are redwings, which do not seem to have the common instinct of hiding themselves when their end approaches. However, in this year's frosts I have had no notice of any severe loss among any species of bird. But I hear of some discoveries among migrant starlings. One bird ringed in Denmark was found in North Devon, and the usual horde of starlings from the Scandinavian countries seem to have sought the south-west. They are certainly very multitudinous in Devon and exceptionally few, at any rate, in the eastern Midlands.
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