Notes

01 September 1974 Comments Notes Great Spotted Woodpecker tapping on window paneAt 5.30 am on 10th June 1974 I was wakened by a loud tapping on the bedroom window of my house at Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire. After three or four taps I drew back the curtains and saw a Great Sp...
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Letters

01 June 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Having paid some attention to t h e manner in which t h e face of t h e Rook becomes bare, I m a y state t h a t in t h e main m y observations a n d specimens confirm Mr. Witherby's conclusions. But, with regard to this species n o t breeding in t...
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Notes

01 June 1959 Comments Notes residence in Shetland we took counts about once a week for two years of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on an area of cliffs in southwest Mainland. The counts are given in full and discussed in The Fulmar (1952) by James Fisher (pp. 347 and 482-488). These F...
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Broken eggs in Peregrine Eyries

01 January 1958 Comments Main paper number of eyries of the Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) that I examined, there were fourteen in which one or more e g g s were either broken or disappeared, with no evidence of human or other outside interference. This would seem a larger number than could b...
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