Bygone birding: Hoopoes reported to have nested in Boston garden (1926)

Interesting piece of memorabila below from the July 1942 edition of The Ibis journal: 

Mr. B. B. Dyer records in  The Field  (12 August, 1926, vol.  cxlviii. p. 299) that in the summer of that year there had been a nest of hoopoes in his garden at Boston, Lincolnshire, the young  birds  having flown.

The brilliant  plumage and large crest were quite recognisable when the birds were seen running on the lawn.

The  last instance of nesting which has come to my notice  refers to Somersetshire. Mr. S. Lewis ( British   Birds, vol. xxv. pp. 165-166) describes how a pair of Hoopoes made  a  nest in an apple-tree in an orchard at Badgworth. Both birds were seen on 19 May, 1931, and on 28 May 1931 when the nest contained eggs. The eggs were finally deserted.

The records in the foregoing list include all instances of breeding  which have come to my notice and which I would accept on their face  value, but there are further statements regarding the breeding of the Hoopoe  which  should be considered.