Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1990
Comments Other 'ABUNDANCE OF LAND-RAILS IN EAST SUSSEX. NOT for many years past have there been so many Land-Rails (Crex crex) during the autumn migration as in 1915. From Pett eastwards there must have been hundreds wherever there was sufficient cover to hide these ...
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Fifty years ago

01 September 1981
Comments Other 'GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN IN INNER LONDON. On July 12th, 1931, I was sitting in Eaton Square Gardens with my wife and son and we all saw about fifteen feet away a Golden-crested Wren (Regulus r. anglorum) hopping about in the grass, very tame and easil...
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