Recent Reports

01 November 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals mainly with August, a month in which strong westerly winds in the first week brought in a number of American waders. However, anticyclonic conditions thereafter prod...
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Reviews

01 November 1973 Comments Reviews The Natural History of Cape Clear Island. Edited by J. T. R. Sharrock. T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1973. 208 pages; 18 photographs; many maps, diagrams and line-drawings. £3.00. Since 1959 Cape Clear has established itself as a major European bi...
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Notes

01 November 1973 Comments Notes Unusual behaviour of Black-necked Grebe From 6th to 15th October 1969, I daily observed a Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis in the harbour of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. When undisturbed by passing boats, it frequently dived and fed insid...
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Recent Reports

01 June 1955 Comments News and comment Normally April and May provide us with quite a scattering of vagrants from southern and south-eastern Europe, but this year such wanderers seem to have been rather few. There were two reports of a Little Egret (Egretta gar^etta) on St. Mary's (Isles of Sc...
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