Monthly marathon

01 May 2000 Comments Other Oh, no! It's a not-verysharp photograph of a rather plain warbler (plate 91, repeated here as plate 137). The plainness and the general shape and lack of any marking save for a weak supercilium suggest one of the Phylloscopus warblers, perhaps one of t...
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Fifty Years ago

01 January 1979 Comments Other 'RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER IN NORTHUMBERLAND When I was walking with my gun along the shore near Boulmer, Northumberland, on October 1st, 1928, my attention was attracted by a small bird, which was unknown to me . . . I shot i t . . . I sent it to the Cu...
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