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 May 1981 Comments Other 'The bodies of three Great Crested Grebes and a Dabchick were found frozen stifTin the pack-ice . . . the birds had travelled under the ice, had been imprisoned and drowned when they strove to reach the surface . . . Five-and-twenty years ago a somewha...
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