Seventy-five years ago

01 June 1986 Comments Other 'PROBABLE SNOW-GEESE IN ESSEX. I have received a communication from Major J. Thornhill, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, to the effect that while he was searching the marshes in the neighbourhood ofthat place on April 13th, 1911, he observed two pairs of birds whi...
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Fifty years agoÉ

01 May 1982 Comments Other 'On 11th August 1931, and the next few days, a CORMORANT (Phalacrocorax c. carbo) created much interest by taking up a position each evening on the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral... An injured WOODCOCK (Scolopax r. rusticola) was picked up alive on 11th...
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