Recent reports

01 January 1982 Comments News and comment Dates in this report refer to October 1981 unless stated otherwise. The month was dominated by low-pressure systems bringing generally unsettled weather as their associated fronts crossed the country. The winds were mainly from the west and north, but ...
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Review

01 September 1931 Comments Reviews Bird Life in Devon. By W. Walmesley White. (Jonathan Cape.) Illustrated. 7s, 6d. net. MR. WALMESLEY W H I T E writes pleasantly and is evidently a lover of his subject as well as a keen observer. The chapters on Dartmoor, Exmoor, an estuary, a river valle...
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Letters

01 September 1931 Comments Letters SIRS, May I, in reference to the valuable contribution by Mr. Walpolc-Bond on the " Songs and Cries of the Nuthatch " in your August issue (pp. 70-r), offer mv notes on tile calls of the Hampshire Nuthatch and ask Mr. Walpolc-Bond whether his Sussex birds...
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Notes

01 September 1931 Comments Notes 1 OBSERVE that in Vol. XX., p. 150, May n t h is mentioned as the earliest recorded date for a complete clutch of the Redbacked Shrike (Lanhis c. collurio). It is therefore of interest to record t h a t I personally took a clutch of five eggs on May 5th,...
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