Sandpipers breed about Clitheroe. I this year (1832) started an old one from her nest at the root of a Weymouth pine. She screamed out, and rolled about in such a manner, and seemed so completely disabled, that, although perfectly aware that her intention was to allure me from her nest, I could not resist my inclination to pursue her, and in consequence I had great difficulty in finding the nest again. It was built of a few dried leaves of the Weymouth pine, and contained three young ones just hatched, and an egg through which the bill of a young one was making its way. Yet, young as they were, on my taking out the egg to examine it, the little things, which could not have been out of the shell more than an hour or two, set off out of the nest with as much celerity as if they had been running about a fortnight. As I thought the old one would abandon the egg if the young ones left the nest, I caught them again and covering them up with my hand for some time, they settled down again. Next day all four had disappeared.
       Montagu says: "It is probable many of the Sandpipers are capable of swimming if by accident they wade out of their depth. Having shot and winged one of this species as it was flying across a piece of water, it fell, and floated towards the side, and as we reached to take it up, the bird instantly dived, and we never saw it rise again to the surface; possibly it got entangled in the weeds and was drowned." I quote this remark because the same thing has happened to myself. I winged a Sandpiper, and on going to take it up, it fluttered into the water and dived, but never rose again to the surface that I could perceive, although I watched long and attentively for it. In this instance the bird could not have been entangled by the weeds, inasmuch as the bottom of the river was covered with gravel and not a weed was growing there. Whether the Sandpiper laid hold of the gravel at the bottom with its feet, or how it managed, I cannot tell, nor have I ever been able to account for it. (June 30th, 1832.)
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       Thomas Garnett's essay: Sandpipers

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Artificial Breeding Of Fish
Artificial Propagation Of Fish
Cotton
Dates Of The Appearance Of Some Spring Birds In 1832, At Clitheroe
Eels
Facts And Observations On The Salmon
Fish And Other River Phenomena
Gossamer
Identity Of The Green With The Wood-Sandpiper
Lampreys
The Long-Tailed Titmouse
The Marsh Titmouse And The Creeper
Mocking Powers Of The Sedge-Warbler
On Birds Dressing Their Feathers With Oil From A Gland
On The Cultivation Of Wheat On The Same Land In Successive Years
On The Formation Of Ice At The Bottom Of Rivers
On The Gravelling Of Clay Soils
On The Possibility Of Introducing Salmon Into New Zealand And Australia
On The Production Of Ice At The Bottoms Of Rivers
On The Spawning Of The Minnow
Remarks On A Proposed Bill For The Better Preservation Of Salmon
The Rook Serviceable To Man.--Prejudice Against It
The Salmon Enters And Ascends Rivers For Other Purposes Besides Propagation
Sandpipers
Scolopax, Sabines, Sabine's Snipe
The Stoat
Suggestions For An Alteration In The Laws Regarding Salmon
The Water Ouzel
Wrens' Nests