Tits and Peanuts

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper DURING the hard weather in February, 1947, my wife and 1 found a small cache of peanuts, preserved in the house since 1939, when we had been in the habit of stringing these together and hanging them up for the tits. On February 12th, therefore, I hung up...
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Notes

01 June 1939 Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...
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Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...
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