Monthly Marathon

01 May 2001
Comments Other Although we are presented with a relatively good photograph, the identification of the bird in plate 64 (repeated here as plate 142) is far from straightforward. Clearly, we are dealing with a tern Sterna/Chlidonias... ...
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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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