Monthly marathon

01 April 2000 Comments Other February's mystery bird (plate 71, repeated here as plate 116) is clearly a medium-sized leaf-warbler Phylloscopus. There are no obvious wing-bars or tertial tips, and apparently no central crown stripe, so we can immediately rule out a number of speci...
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Looking back

01 April 2000 Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `I have just obtained a bird which is in the list of your desiderata, and I therefore hope it will be acceptable to you. As the bird agrees in every respect with the description given of the stork (Ardea Ciconia), excep...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 August 1984 Comments Other 'On June 27th last I saw on the Bempton Cliffs an undoubted example of Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria bruennichi). I saw this bird several times as it always returned to the same ledge in company with a Common Guillemot, and it was not more than 40 or 50 ...
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