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01 July 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgement alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...

Notes

01 July 1960 Comments Notes Olivaceous Warbler i n Co. Donegal.--At about 6 p.m. on 29th September 1959 I found a strange warbler among the small walled enclosures of the lighthouse grounds at the western end of Tory Island, Co. Donegal. The light was very poor and fading, so that b...

The behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows while rearing young

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper 1959 OBSERVATIONS were made on the behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) rearing their second brood of young in an observation nest-box in the suburban district of Pinner, Middlesex. Fixed near the eaves of a house and eighteen feet ab...

M. S. Wood's garden and bird-table photography

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper graphs of birds in aggressive attitudes shown in this issue, had been recognised as a first-class bird photographer of the conventional type for many years before circumstances forced him to less conventional methods. His family was well known in Lancashi...

Bird of prey numbers on a Hampshire game-preserve during 1952-1959

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper hawks I saw during visits to an estate of approximately 4,000 acres in west Hampshire. T h e species involved were Buzzard (Buteo buteo), Sparrowhawk and Goshawk (Actipiter nisus and gentilis), Marsh, Hen and Montagu's Harriers {Circus aeruginosus, cyaneu...

Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper D U R I N G T H E W I N T E R of 1958-59 I collected 113 pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) beneath roosts in a disused quarry near the Dale estuary, Pembrokeshire. The quarry is on a steep bracken-covered hillside surrounded by farmland and the salt...

Letters

01 August 1953 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I was most interested to read the account by J. D. Macdonald of t h e recovery of an albatross in Derbyshire (antea, pp. I I O - I I I ) and to see the accompanying photograph (plate 13), because in m y opinion the bird was a Yellow-nosed Alb...

Notices and Requests for Information

01 August 1953 Comments Editorials Unusual passage of Firecrests.--It is evident t h a t a quite unusual number of Firecrests (Regulus ignicapillus) passed through the south and south-east of Britain, particularly in the region of the coast, during the late autumn of 1952 and the spring of...

Review

01 August 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of Lancashire. By Clifford Oakes. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953). 21s. od. One cannot fail to be impressed by the wealth of information which is presented here, and the care with which it has evidently been sifted. Local distribution, of cours...

Notes

01 August 1953 Comments Notes On the feeding habits of the Redshank and the Spotted Redshank.-- Observations were made on the feeding of Redshank (Tringa totanus) and Spotted Redshank (T. erythropus) on a shallow, tideless mud lagoon surrounded by reeds. The method employed was to ob...

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Recent Reports and News

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The behaviour of a pair of House Sparrows while rearing young

M. S. Wood's garden and bird-table photography

Bird of prey numbers on a Hampshire game-preserve during 1952-1959

Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

Letters

Notices and Requests for Information

Review

Notes

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