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190. 20th April 1949. A beautiful sunny morning with cool NW. breeze, after almost frost: all sunny till 12:30 noon (S.T.) when SE. wind started & clouds formed: entirely dull in afternoon with wind S-SW. & falling glass, a depression approached from SW. Left home on bikes & rode to Clondalkin & up canal at 2:30 P.M. & returned home at 5 P.M. George went back to Belfast after Easter Holidays by 9 AM train & when I was coming down stairs at 7:30 AM. I looked out of landing window and saw 2 SWIFTS circling over the back garden. I called Daisy & George up from hall & all three of us watched them for a minute or two. Half an hour later there was no sign of them & none seen during the day. At 11 AM. in hot sun saw a ♂︎ Large White Butterfly in front garden sunning itself on a leaf of Anemone japonica & a Small White flew past at same time. In afternoon did a little sweeping S. of canal in the usual place above 3rd lock W. of Clondalkin & took the following hymenoptera there 191. 20.4.49, cont. S. of Grand Canal, 1/2 to 3/4 mile W. of Clondalkin, DU. Bombus agrorum & Andrena albicans ♂︎♂︎ seen. Phygadeuon ♂︎, ant. 22 = Campoplegid ♂︎, ant. 23 = Apanteles lateralis ♂︎ Aspilota nigrescens? ♀︎, ant. 18. Dacnusa aphanta ♂︎, ant. 26 D. gilvipes ♂︎, ant. 27. D. laevipectus ♂︎, dark legs, not mtd. Ephedrus pulchellus 2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 11; segs. 10 & 11 free! Monoctonus nervosa 3♂︎♂︎: 1♂︎ mtd. ant. 17-18. Aphidius cf. pascuorum 16 (mostly ♂︎♂︎): not mtd. Proctos. 2: 1 mtd. = Chalcids 1, not mtd. [11 insects mounted & these labelled "C'l'd'K'n on 23/4/49. A.W.S.] 21st & 22nd April 1949. Two fine days with cloud & sun getting milder, after slight rain on night of 20th-21st but not enough. Potatoes planted on 16th March now showing. Many Mossy Saxifrages out or almost so in both front & back garden. Hierochloe & Scotland Poa from Corrie Fee in flower & the Avena from Scotland also with many spikes coming on. 23rd April '49. Two Swifts again seen at 9.30 AM. flying over Westfield Rd., & watched for some time - not seen since 20th. Blackbird nesting at NW. angle of garden & motor house has now laid three eggs in a nest which has no mud lining, perhaps owing to dry weather & concrete roads, &c.