Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 April 1984 Comments Other 'DOWN Y WOODPECKER (DENDROCOPUS PUBESCENS) IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. On January 14th, 1908, a friend who occasionally shoots birds for me brought me in a little Woodpecker that he had shot that day at Frampton Cotterel, near Bristol. It was climbing up the t...
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Fifty Years ago

01 October 1979 Comments Other 'SPANISH GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER EATING YOUNG BLUE TITMICE. While in the Almoraima cork woods with Major W. M. Congreve on May 9th, 1890 we saw a male Spanish Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dryobates m. hispanus) go to a Spanish Blue Tit's nest in a c...
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