Monthly marathon

01 February 2001
Comments Other December's photograph (plate 364 in volume 93, repeated here as plate 48) is obviously of a wader/shorebird (depending on which side of the Atlantic you come from) and, judging by its proportions, and by its size in relation to the vegetation in the ba...
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Looking back

01 February 2001
Comments Other On October 2nd, 1925, wind E. –­ S.S.W., I saw seven Surf-Scoters (Oidemia perspicillata) in a rather choppy sea off Scolt Head. The birds were fairly close inshore, so that the white patch on the nape was distinctly visible on three of them.This is...
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