October 2019 – contents

01 October 2019
Comments Latest issues The BBRC annual report needs little introduction to regular readers, since it is now 60 years since our national rarities committee was first established. Andy Stoddart looks back over the first six decades in his ‘BBRC birthday’ BB eye on p...
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My patch – Shieldhill Farm

01 October 2019
Comments Editorials My patch comprises Shieldhill Farm and some adjoining land, including the Bennan Loch and Lochcraig Reservoir, and lies close to the town of Eaglesham, in East Renfrewshire, around 15 km south of Glasgow. On the edge of the Eaglesham Moor, the farm is ...
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Notes

01 October 1972
Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...
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