Recent reports

01 August 1970
Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers July 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. Rarities were few, but they included a number of surprising records. Among these were a Black-browed ...
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News and Comments

01 August 1970
Comments News and comment Coastal conservation A national plan for developing stretches of Britain's coastline for recreational and holiday uses, while preserving others, was proposed in two reports published by the Countryside Commission on ist October. One of these reports, enti...
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Letters

01 August 1970
Comments Letters Partridges attacking injured young I was interested in G. V. Geiger's note 'Female House Sparrow attacking fledgling' {Brit. Birds, 62: 447-448). In my shooting days in Huntingdonshire, in the 1920's and 1930's, I witnessed three occurrences when an adult...
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Reviews

01 August 1970
Comments Reviews Natural History of the Lake District. Edited by Canon G. A. K. Hervey and J. A. G. Barnes. Warne, London, 1970. 230 pages; 32 plates, 8 in colour; 3 maps; 20 line drawings. 60s. Lake District naturalists owe a considerable debt to the late Canon Hervey fo...
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Notes

01 August 1970
Comments Notes Kestrel attempting to prey on Weasels On 27th October 1969, whilst driving along a narrow road near Peakirk, Northamptonshire, that was bordered on both sides by low hedges, I saw a female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus drop down on to the grass verge. It imme...
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Notes

01 January 1948
Comments Notes WITH reference to my note (antea, Vol. xl, p. 209) concerning the large gathering of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in Carmarthenshire in March, 1946, I was interested to read Mr. Cadman's note which immediately followed my own. In reply to Mr. Cadman's query ...
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