Recent reports

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...
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News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...
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Reviews

01 December 1928 Comments Reviews Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 1927. Edited by B. W. Tucker, M.A., M.B.O.U. is. 6d. THIS Report bears evidence of increased activity and great keenness on the part of the members. We...
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Letters

01 December 1928 Comments Letters SIRS,--Will you kindly allow me space to make enquiries concerning the present whereabouts of a clutch of two eggs of the Honey-Buzzard taken in the Quantocks, Somerset, on June 25th, 1899. These eggs were sold a t Stevens's on April 25th, 1906, ex collec...
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Notes

01 December 1928 Comments Notes T H E following incubation- and fledging-periods were obtained in 1928 (A) in west Sussex, (B) in north Wilts.; the incubation-periods being calculated from the day on which the last egg was laid and the fledging-periods from the day or days of hatching ...
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