Notes

01 August 1990
Comments Notes Oystercatchers incubating on closely adjacent nests. In early spring 1987, in a quiet corner of Blackpool Airport, Lancashire, soil, sand and chippings were dumped and then levelled. Later, the area became partly covered by vegetation and up to five Oy...
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Mystery photographs

01 August 1990
Comments Main paper Perched conspicuously on a prominent vantage point, this mystery bird shows a fairly substantial bill, relatively long tail and black mask, a combination which quickly shows it to be one of the shrikes Lanius. The blackness of the wings and '...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1990
Comments Other 'LAND-RAILS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. I am pleased to report that the Land-Rail (Crex crex) turned up this year in quite average numbers in the district of Cheadle, Staffordshire . . . This very dry season is bringing on a very early hay harvest, and this...
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Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

01 August 1990
Comments Main paper The weather during this winter period was milder and wetter than average everywhere, with temperatures 2.5ºC above normal in much of southern and eastern England Unsettled westerly weather in early November changed to warm anticyclonic southeasterlies...
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August reports

01 November 1974
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records August was dominated by weather from the Atlantic, a series of depressions crossing Britain and producing generally cool and unsettled conditions with temperatures below average and rainfal...
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News and comment

01 November 1974
Comments News and comment Rookery census The last national survey of the British Rook population was undertaken by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1945; much data was gathered (and is still on file), though rather little was published. Various local surveys carried...
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Letters

01 November 1974
Comments Letters Oiled seabirds successfully cleaning their plumage I was interested to read the note by T. R. Birkhead, Clare Lloyd and P. Corkhill concerning the successful cleaning of oiled plumage by seabirds (Brit. Birds, 66: 535-537). Instances of this be...
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Reviews

01 November 1974
Comments Reviews The Cairngorms. Their Natural History and Scenery. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson and Adam Watson. Collins, London, 1974. 286 pages; 7 colour and 36 black-and-white photographs; 17 maps and text-figures. £3.50.  Everything about the Cairn...
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Notes

01 November 1974
Comments Notes Kestrel taking prey from Short-eared Owl On 20th January 1974, Mrs M. Perkins and I watched a Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus hunting in the usual manner over rough grass on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. It dropped into the grass, rose with a small...
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