Monthly marathon

01 January 2004 Comments Other A novice birdwatcher looking at Monthly Marathon photo number 201 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 245, repeated here as plate 25) might wonder if the bird depicted in the photograph is a wader, with the stripes on the mantle possibly suggesting a species of sni...
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Looking back

01 January 2004 Comments Other `An unrecorded occurrence of a probable Redflanked Bluetail in Lincolnshire.­­The extract quoted below is from page 82 of the typescript of an as yet unpublished book by the late G. H. Caton Haigh entitled "Birds of a Lincolnshire Parish being A List...
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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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