Smallshire, D, Osborne, K, Peterson, R. T, Nelson, J. B, Jones, R. E, Sharrock, J. T. R, Parrinder, E. D, Lewis, W. A. S, Britton, R. C, Ryves, B. H, Shaw, W. D, Longstaff, T. G, Morshead, P. E. A, Vincent, J, Collenette, C. L, Meade-Waldo, E. G. B, Jourdain, F. C. R, Witherby, H. F, Peterson, R. T, Jones, R. E, Sharrock, J. T. R, Ryves, B. H, Longstaff, T. G, Vincent, J, Collenette, C. L, Witherby, H. F & Jourdain, F. C. R / August 1929 – vol. 23, issue 3–⁠70

ON May 21st, 1929, from 11.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., I observed at close quarters a pair of Choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) at nest on the north Cornish coast. Both parents were feeding nestlings, which were about eight days old. The weather was calm and soft with a cloudless sky. The Choughs were always in company and approached the nest, built within a cavity, not from the top of the cliff but from ...

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