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01 August 1936 Comments Notes A NEST of a Carrion-Crow (Corvus c. corone) in a willow tree in Walland Marsh, Kent, had a clutch of eggs which was taken on April 12th, 1936. On May 17th, the nest contained another clutch of eggs which were exactly like the first. The nest did not appe...
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01 March 1936 Comments Notes IN view of the recent notes concerning the influx of Jays into Hampshire during the autumn of 1935, it may be of interest to report that in the Layer Marney district--between Col chester and Maldon, Essex--they have been unusually scarce this winter (Oct...
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01 December 1934 Comments Notes DURING the last week in May, 1934, a pair of Spotted Flycatchers (Muscicapa s. striata) built a nest in a cleft of a climbing rose tree growing against the wall of our house in Norfolk. On May 31st this nest contained four eggs, which were taken. On June...
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01 November 1933 Comments Notes A PAIR of Starlings (Sturnus v. vulgaris) hatched their young in the roof of a dwelling-house adjoining my house at Cheddar, Somerset, on September 15th, 1933. This is the second brood in the same nest. The importance of this record seems to be that duri...
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01 November 1931 Comments Notes reference to this enquiry, a good many observers have not yet sent in their schedules and are now urged to do so in order that the great labour of collating the information may be commenced without delay. All schedules and communications with reference t...
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01 October 1931 Comments Notes --Ringers are reminded that all schedules with lists of birds they have ringed during the season should now be sent in. As it is a great convenience in collating totals for the lists of birds ringed to be uniform in size and order, special forms have been...
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01 July 1931 Comments Notes ON May 1st, 1931, in an open hole in a limb of a great ash tree at Bamston Lodge, Essex, I found a Jackdaw (Colceus m. spermologus) sitting on four eggs so much mud-daubed that they were very inconspicuous on the nest material. I had not time to investig...
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01 August 1929 Comments Notes ON May 21st, 1929, from 11.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., I observed at close quarters a pair of Choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) at nest on the north Cornish coast. Both parents were feeding nestlings, which were about eight days old. The weather was calm and soft...
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01 July 1929 Comments Notes As a result of information given them by the late Mr. Good of Westport, that the Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla f. rayi) nested extensively on Mask and Carra, the late Robert Warren and Mr. Williams of Dublin proceeded in 1893 to investigate, with the results...
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