Monthly marathon

01 May 1998
Comments Other With postal delays affecting some areas, and entries from none of the key players having been received, we have decided to extend the deadline for the nineteenth stage of this ninth 'Monthly marathon' from 15th April to 30th April. The answer, and news...
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Looking Back

01 May 1998
Comments Other Twenty-five years ago: 'One of the most amazing events of the month [May 1973] was an influx of Red-footed Falcons Falco vespertinus from continental Europe from about 20th, continuing through June. 'Although this insectivorous falcon has been an expected...
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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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