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01 November 1971 Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This covers August 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. Dull, changeable, showery weather during the first week led into an unusually wet and windy period from 9th to 14th w...

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01 November 1971 Comments News and comment N e w R.S.P.B. reserve in Orkney The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has recently acquired its first reserve in Orkney: the Dale of Cottascarth on the main island. The Dale is already scheduled by the Nature Conservancy as a Site of Special Scie...

Letters

01 November 1971 Comments Letters The late James Fisher's papers Several naturalists have asked me what has been the fate of the working notes and other papers used by my father, the late James Fisher. I hope that the following summary may be useful to naturalists who may wish to have acc...

Reviews

01 November 1971 Comments Reviews Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World. By Leslie Brown and Dean Amadon. Hamlyn (for Country Life), Feltham, Middlesex, 1968. Two volumes in slip case: 945 pages including 165 bird plates (most in colour), one egg plate (in colour), 15 underwing plates, 9...

Notes

01 November 1971 Comments Notes Sabine's Gull hawking flying insects inland In a recent editorial comment concerning the feeding habits of Sabine's Gulls Larus sablni {Brit. Birds, 64: 76-77), several methods were described and the birds were said to be very versatile in collecting food...

British bird-photographers: 14 H Morrey Salmon

01 November 1971 Comments Main paper Plates 7 6-80 Colonel H. Morrey Salmon, in his late seventies but still going strong, must now rank as the father of British bird-photography. His interest in birds began with a small collection of eggs when he was still a junior at school and he has kept...

Recoveries in Great Britain and Ireland of birds ringed abroad

01 November 1971 Comments Main paper Unlike its predecessors, the present list covers two years (1969 and 1970)--it is obviously desirable that publication of recoveries should be as up-to-date as practicable--but to accomplish this it has been necessary to be more selective than usual in ch...

Gulls nesting on buildings in Britain and Ireland

01 November 1971 Comments Main paper Thirty years ago the nesting of gulls on buildings in areas frequented by human beings was almost unknown in Britain and Ireland. Witherby et al. (1938-41) mentioned a single instance of Herring Gulls Larus argentatus on a house roof in Devon, and stated ...

Firecrests breeding in Buckinghamshire

01 November 1971 Comments Main paper On 28th May 1971, while censusing the birds of a Forestry Commission plantation near Wendover, Buckinghamshire, I heard and later saw a male Firecrest Regulus ignicapillus singing about eight metres up in a Norway spruce Picea abies. The plantation is dom...

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01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

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British bird-photographers: 14 H Morrey Salmon

Recoveries in Great Britain and Ireland of birds ringed abroad

Gulls nesting on buildings in Britain and Ireland

Firecrests breeding in Buckinghamshire

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