Monthly marathon

01 October 1995 Comments Other As noted last month, the closing dates for the last three hurdles (plates 97, 111 and 126) are all 15th October 1995, so the answers will be given next month. This month's hurdle is shown below (plate 140). The current leaders in this competition are J...
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Looking Back

01 October 1995 Comments Other 'Burrow-chat, Wheatear or White-rump, Saxicola OEnanthe. Abundant on the sand links along our coast, where it arrives early in the spring, and breeds in the deserted rabbit-holes . . . It is delicious eating, although in this neighbourhood it is neglec...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1986 Comments Other The third photograph (plate 262 in the September issue) was clearly trickier to identify than was either of the first two (Skylark 68% right and Brambling 87% right). Entrants identified it as: Bluethroat Luscinia svecica (45%) Sedge W'arbler Acrocepha...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 December 1986 Comments Other 'On this large loch there were only two pairs of Black-throated Divers, and we did not discover the other nest. I should have liked to have spent more time amongst these birds, but the nesting season is so short; and as I had decided to spend the whole...
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