• Domestic Model
Shelduck have increased greatly during recent years along the Norfolk coast. Most of the rabbit burrows on Scolt Head and Blakeney Point seem to be occupied by them in the nesting season. They also nest in numbers on heaths at the Back—Kelling, Salthouse, Wolferton, and • the rest. On July 21st of this year an observer counted 108 young Shel- ducks on one small piece of water on Salthouse marshes. By September they had practically all left and are not seen again in any numbers till January. Where do they go ? Occasionally—but you must be up early to see ft—the parent birds may be seen coming along the high road, escorting their brood to the coast, and not long ago a Trust watcher at Cley saw such a family party coming along the coast road, and they turned in under the gate by the East Bank of Clay. One of the youngsters was riding postillion fashion on its mother's back and had to dismount to avoid the lowest bar of the gate ! More information on the winter home of the Shelduck is much desired.
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