Monthly marathon

01 June 1999 Comments Other `Monthly marathon' Photo no. 154. Third stage in eleventh `Marathon'. Identify the species. Read the rules below, then send your answer on a postcard to Monthly Marathon, Fountains, Park Lane, Blunham, Bedford MK44 3NJ, to arrive by 15th July 1999.1. O...
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Looking back

01 June 1999 Comments Other `The following notes were made... in those extensive woods which once formed part of the Forest of Feckenham, Worcestershire... At first I heard nothing more than Thrushes, Blackbirds and Nightingales, except a Nightjar... A WoodWarbler was singing amo...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1990 Comments Other 'The two tapering central tail-feathers in Richardson's Skua project about three inches, those in the Pomatorhine about four inches, and those in Buffon's about seven or eight inches, but in Richardson's we find them rarely, if ever, broken, seldom in ...
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