Monthly marathon

01 July 2001
Comments Other The long pointed wings and long, tapering, forked tail of the bird in Monthly Marathon number 177 (plate 109, repeated here as plate 198) will have been readily identifiable as a swift (Apodidae) to all but the most inexperienced of obser vers. The pho...
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Looking back

01 July 2001
Comments Other Seventy-five years ago: `GREAT AND BLUE TITMICE IN SKYE. IN a Practical Handbook of British Birds' I notice that the Great Titmouse (Parus major) is said to be only a rare visitor to Skye. It may be interesting therefore to record that I saw s...
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Seventy -five years ago

01 February 1983
Comments Other "In the past month we have been confronted at every turn by wonderful stories of a pair of luminous Owls, which apparently possess the power of emitting a light sufficiently brilliant to be mistaken for the light of a bicycle lamp! Sir Digby ...
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