Mystery photographs

01 April 1988
Comments Main paper A quick glance at the distinctive bill-shape and long, pointed wings of last month's mystery bird (plate 73, repeated here as plate 89) is sufficient to identify it as a shearwater. The astute reader, confident in our sense of fair play, would have imm...
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The nesting of a pair of Blue Tits

01 May 1952
Comments Main paper 1951 we were able to study a pair of Blue Tits (Parus aeruleus) nesting in a garden at Wilnecote, north Warwickshire, and the following are some of the more outstanding observations. Both birds had been trapped and colour-ringed in the winter. They were t...
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