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01 August 1990 Comments Notes Oystercatchers incubating on closely adjacent nests. In early spring 1987, in a quiet corner of Blackpool Airport, Lancashire, soil, sand and chippings were dumped and then levelled. Later, the area became partly covered by vegetation and up to five Oy...

Mystery photographs

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper Perched conspicuously on a prominent vantage point, this mystery bird shows a fairly substantial bill, relatively long tail and black mask, a combination which quickly shows it to be one of the shrikes Lanius. The blackness of the wings and '...

Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1990 Comments Other 'LAND-RAILS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. I am pleased to report that the Land-Rail (Crex crex) turned up this year in quite average numbers in the district of Cheadle, Staffordshire . . . This very dry season is bringing on a very early hay harvest, and this...

Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The weather during this winter period was milder and wetter than average everywhere, with temperatures 2.5ºC above normal in much of southern and eastern England Unsettled westerly weather in early November changed to warm anticyclonic southeasterlies...

Plumage variation and identification of the 'Yelkouan Shearwater'

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The classification of the European breeding shearwaters related to the Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus, and the identification of the Mediterranean forms yelkouan and mauretanicus, colloquially known as the 'Levantine Shearwater' and the 'Balearic Sh...

Letters

01 October 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to Mr. Masefield's note (antea, p . 270), fleas m a y generally b e found in T i t ' s nests in t h e winter, a n d during t h e first few warm days in spring m a y be seen waiting in numbers outside t h e hole ready to j u ...

Notes

01 October 1963 Comments Notes ON January 21st, 1914, I was shown a couple of very fine Pine-Grosbeaks (Pinicola e. enucleator) that had been, obtained the previous day at Brigbtling, Sussex. They were both males, and one was of a beautiful rosy colour and of a far more gaudy tint tha...

Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

01 October 1963 Comments Obituaries born 1871, B.A. Cambridge 1894 (first-class in the Natural Science Tripos in the same list with his friend Dr. E. A. Wilson), Major oth (Militia) Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, in which he served during the South African war, Hon. Captain in the Army, P.Z...

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper SINCE the appearance of the Rev, A. C. Smith's Birds of Wiltshire in 1887 many new county records have naturally occurred. I now propose to give the more interesting of those I have collected, some of which have heen published before, but many of which ar...

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper O N May 9th, 1913, I found a colony of about twenty pairs of Common Gulls (Larus c. camts) nesting on a small island in a freshwater loch in the Outer Hebrides. The islet was occupied also by about the same number of pairs of Black-headed Gulls (Larus rid...

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Notes

Mystery photographs

Seventy-five years ago

Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

Plumage variation and identification of the 'Yelkouan Shearwater'

Letters

Notes

Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

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