News and comment

01 June 1973
Comments News and comment Towards realistic penalties? During the last two or three years there have been too many occasions when it has been necessary to deplore an apparent upsurge of interest in egg collecting resulting in the robbing of nests of rarer species, notab...
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Letters

01 June 1973
Comments Letters Wallcreeper on migration in the Netherlands Dr H. Lohrl's statement (Brit. Birds, 63 : 167) that the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria is non-migratory has been challenged by David Elias, H. G. Alexander, Guy Mountfort and K. D. Smith (Brit. Birds...
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Notes

01 June 1973
Comments Notes Aggression by female Buzzard at nest I was intrigued by the recent note from G. A. Williams and D. Coan on aggression by a female Buzzard Buteo buteo {Brit. Birds, 66: 31-32). O n 26th April 1944, in a large stand of mature Scots pines on a Lak...
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Studies of Sparrowhawks

01 June 1973
Comments Main paper Roy Blewitt's photographs are the first of the Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus to be published in British Birds since the long series which accompanied J. H. Owen's remarkable studies during 1916-36. They show well the uniform upperparts (plates 41a, 42b, ...
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Letters

01 April 1945
Comments Letters SIRS,'--With reference t o Mr. Howard Bentham's record of a pair of SongThrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) rearing two broods in t h e same nest (antea, p. 157), it may be of interest t o report t h a t , in 1944, in my garden in Mawganin-Pydar, I obtained m...
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Reviews

01 April 1945
Comments Reviews Report on the Birds of Nottinghamshire, 1943. Compiled for the Nottingham Natural Science Field Club and the Trent Valley Bird Watchers by J. Staton. W E are very glad t o welcome an independent report on Nottinghamshire which bears testimony to t h e go...
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Notes

01 April 1945
Comments Notes SINCE I find no reference to the courtship-feeding of the female Linnet (Carduelis c. cannabina) by the male in the Handbook of British Birds, perhaps the following m a y be of interest. On April 24th, 1944, a number of Linnets were feeding on weed seeds...
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Feeding of Blue Tit Nestlings

01 April 1945
Comments Main paper T H E occupation last year (1944) of a special nesting box by a pair of Blue Tits {Varus ccsruleus obscurus) enabled me to observe at very close quarters the feeding of the nestlings. This I was anxious to do in order to find, if possible, what method or ...
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