Notes

01 June 2007
Comments Notes Slavonian Grebe breeding with Great Crested Grebe Puffin with exceptionally heavy tick infestation Eurasian Sparrowhawk attacking Soprano Pipistrelle bat Reed Warbler apparently using willow-bark pieces in nest construction ...
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The Index of Heron Population, 1944

01 May 1945
Comments Main paper The number of reports on sites occupied by Herons in 1944, which were received at the Edward Grey Institute, was i n . Of these 77 were in England, 6 in Wales, 8 in Scotland and 20 in Ireland. We are indebted to 55 informants, of whom a considerable numbe...
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Notes from Fair Isle, 1939-45

01 May 1945
Comments Main paper IN the spring of 1944, George T. Arthur (G.T.A.), and the writer (G.W.), visited Fair Isle, Shetland, between March 28th and April 17th. In autumn, the island was again visited by the writer between August 14th and 21st. Eighty-seven different species and...
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Letters

01 May 1945
Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o the note under t h e above heading (antea,p. 177), i t may be of interest t o record t h a t nests of t h e Swallow without any ledge or other support below are b y no means unusual in South Gloucestershire. Of 37 nests which rem...
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Notes

01 May 1945
Comments Notes SOME notes of mine, under the above heading, were published in British Birds, Vol xxxvi, p. 241. A further two years spent in the same locality have enabled me to supplement them as follows :--RING-OUZEL (Turdus t. torquatus).--There is some evidence t h...
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