Monthly marathon

01 January 2004 Comments Other A novice birdwatcher looking at Monthly Marathon photo number 201 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 245, repeated here as plate 25) might wonder if the bird depicted in the photograph is a wader, with the stripes on the mantle possibly suggesting a species of sni...
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Looking back

01 January 2004 Comments Other `An unrecorded occurrence of a probable Redflanked Bluetail in Lincolnshire.­­The extract quoted below is from page 82 of the typescript of an as yet unpublished book by the late G. H. Caton Haigh entitled "Birds of a Lincolnshire Parish being A List...
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Fifty years ago

01 February 1981 Comments Other 'At three o'clock the following morning as I dozed with the lobster fishermen in their small bothy I was awakened by the fluttering of wings on my arm and head and found a StormPetrel, apparently dazzled by the candle, moving about my person.' SETON GO...
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