Notes

01 January 1968
Comments Notes Feeding relationship between mullet and Herring Gulls.--On 26th August 1967, at Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I watched a shoal of mullet Mugil sp. swimming in ten feet of water alongside a small trawler tied up in the North Harbour. These mullet were lift...
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01 March 1957
Comments Notes Ortolan Bunting in Middlesex. -- On the morning of 2nd September 1956, I was Walking along the northern bank of the River Brent where it flows into the Brent Reservoir, Middlesex, noting the many migrants which had arrived in the comparative calm after a ...
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01 May 1939
Comments Notes IN May, 1937, I watched a hen Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) at the weir at Cropston Reservoir, Leicestershire, catching what I took to be minnows, but they may have been sticklebacks. The fish had been stranded in small shallow pools and were swimming abo...
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