Professor Ansted includes the Redshank in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey.
I have, however, a Redshankin full breeding plumage, killed in Guernsey as late as the 23rd of April.
The Redshank is fairly common during summer on our northern moors, but this species, like one or two others, is as much at home in more lowland haunts.
Like all the waders of the marshlands, the Redshankis very voracious, and has an excellent stomach.
The Redshank enlivens whatever place in the reed-land or marsh it happens to nest in by its voice and its varied plumage.
The love flight of the redshank is a very striking feature of the courtship and may be seen even after incubation has begun.
The redshank is a shore feeder to a great extent for the autumn months and often a riverside and marsh harvester in spring and summer.
The quick beat of the wings is suddenly slowed and is replaced by a succession of slow, clipping strokes; at the same time the wings are markedly bent downward just as those of the redshank in some of his courtship flights.
The Iceland redshank has very similar habits to the ordinary European bird and haunts the swamps and morasses near the sea as well as the neighborhood of the larger lakes inland during the breeding season.
In the British Isles the common redshank has greatly increased its breeding range during the last 25 years and has gradually made its way inland up the river valleys to many districts where it was previously quite unknown.
Huxley (1912) describes it as follows: A redshank rises up into the air, and there flies in a series of switchbacks.
In the photograph, the grass has been parted in order to show the eggs, but before this was done they were screened as carefully as the eggs of a redshank or reeve.
During the breeding season it is quite a common sight to see a redshank perched on a post, or tripping lightly along a rail with upraised wings, and it will at times even settle on a tree.
The male was evidently pressing his attentions on his mate and approached her with high flapping wings, showing the underside almost as the redshank does, and actually raising his wing over the hen until at last coition took place.
The Redshankdelights in the fen countries, and in wet and marshy grounds, where it breeds and rears its young.
Many birds would starve there, but the Redshank is quite happy, as Nature has fitted him for his life in such a place.
As a rule the Redshank digs for his dinner, though he also picks up any worms or other food on the surface; but he is nearly always seen probing the mud.
No sooner does the Redshank spy you than he is up and, with a shrill whistle of alarm, flies quickly away.
Now let us leave the beach and look for the Redshank on the mud-flats.
Sociable at all times, and freely consorting with other Limicoline species on the coast, in winter, especially, the Redshank becomes very gregarious.
The Redshank breeds somewhat locally in the marshy districts of our islands, perhaps most commonly in the low-lying eastern counties of England, and in Scotland.
And apparently she would be very pleased if her husband would come out of the hole and make room for her to stuff the redshank into it.
She was carrying an old hen-redshank in her jaws, its long beak and one of its wings clearly silhouetted against the moon.
Some say he is a Redshank of the Scots, but I tell you he is a devil too.
The food of the Redshank consists of worms, marine insects, and any other animal matter which abounds on the sea-shore.
The Redshank is a bird of frequent occurrence on all such parts of the coast as are suited to its habits.
On one occasion only have I been enabled to approach near enough to a Redshank to watch its peculiar movements while feeding, and this observation I was much pleased in making, as it confirms the account of another observer.
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